Letter from Joshua Tree: Summer Nights in the High Desert Inline

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    The author’s 1952 cabin, bought from the family who homesteaded there in the 1940s.

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    Flat Top margaritas: ice, salt, muddled basil, mostly Limonata, jigger of tequila, squeeze of lime.

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    Dolly waits for house guests.

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    P. soaks in the stock tank, Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa in the distance.

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    Blooming Angel's Wing, also known as Cow's Tongue.

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    Desert reading on the slab.

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    The albatross in the kitchen.

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    P. and Dolly watching the sun rise over the Sawtooth Range.

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    Summer sunset over Little Flat Top, behind the cabin.

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    Moonrise on a Sunday night.