Our Desert Critters - in and around Joshua Tree
The desert is home to numerous varieties of wildlife from the tiniest of insects to big horn sheep, coyotes and Bobcats, and yes, lizards too.
This is a 7-inch Desert Gecko sitting atop the kitchen counter with a pair of US 25 cent coins.
It wasn’t very difficult capturing the little critter. I set ‘em in a plastic box for about 30 minutes, allowing it to settle down while I fiddled with camera settings.
These guys are a bit delicate. If you hold onto its tail, you very likely will see the critter scampering away from you while you’re still holding onto it’s wiggling severed tail.
Cactus-Thorns has it you just got older. Listen, if yer having difficulty in judging if yer “old” or not, you’ll know yer gittin’ old when ya plop down in that rockin’ chair and can’t git the damn thing going. Have another Tequila/Lime hotdog an’ try again. 
Lately, seven of the eight have vanished. “At sunrise, I hear the one that is still here crying for his family,” Kreuter said.
TWENTY-NINE PALMS
JOSHUA TREE, CA – In the Cultural Center’s second casting call this month in support of its almost fifty-year tradition of staging the Desert’s best in live theatre, the Hi-Desert Cultural Center in association with The Yucca Valley Shakespeare Guild is pleased to announce that auditions for JULIUS CAESAR will be held Saturday, January 19th, 2013. This Shakespearean classic will play at the Center’s state-of-the-art Blak Box Theater March 14-17, 2013. The Yucca Valley Shakespeare Guild’s Artistic Director and Founder, Eric Quander (aka Q), will conduct the auditions beginning at 4:30 pm.
