As tomorrow is the first day of Spring, (March 19, 2024,) it is a good time to relish some of the flowering joys of this season. There once was a hamlet, a small California Gold Country town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, called Volcano, where a beautiful flower show sprang every spring in a place […]
One of the U.S.A.’s newest National Monuments is Gold Butte, close to the city of Mesquite in southeast Nevada, alongside the Utah/Arizona border. As one of President Obama’s last actions in office, 300,000 acres of the Mojave Desert were declared a National Monument under the Antiquities Act in 2016. (National Monuments are similar to National […]