Moon Over The Sonoran Desert
by Robert Bales
Title
Moon Over The Sonoran Desert
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
The Sonoran Desert is an arid region covering 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, as well as most of Baja California and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Subdivisions of this hot, dry region include the Colorado and Yuma deserts. Irrigation has produced many fertile agricultural areas, including the Coachella and Imperial valleys of California. Warm winters attract tourists to Sonora Desert resorts in Palm Springs, California, and Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
This is the hottest of our North American deserts, but a distinctly bimodal rainfall pattern produces a high biological diversity. Winter storms from the Pacific nourish many West Coast annuals such as poppies and lupines, while well-developed summer monsoons host both annuals and woody plants originating from the south. Freezing conditions can be expected for a few nights in winter.
Trees are usually well developed on the desert ranges and their bajadas. Often abundant on these well-drained soils are Little-leaf Palo Verdes, Desert Ironwoods, Catclaw and Saguaro.
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March 29th, 2013
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Comments (7)
Shoal Hollingsworth
WOW, this is a gorgeous location and capture
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much for the wonderful comments! iI is a few miles from our winter house 1
Michael Mirijan
This wonderful picture is featured on the homepage of the "Pictures for Present" group.