Orocopia Mountains
Colorado Desert
Southeast California


Driving along Interstate 10 in southeastern California, the desert may appear to some to be just sand and tumble weeds. The desert environment, however, provides a wonderful opportunity for viewing wildlife, wildflowers, and magnificant rock formations in the mountain areas.

The naturalist, Edmund C. Jaeger, in writing about the California deserts, observed:


     "There is only one way really to see the desert, and that is away from the highways. The desert is largely a land of silence, but if you listen you can hear it."

I would add: if you look, you can see it.

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The area we've explored on several trips is in the north-eastern portion of the Orocopia Mountains, south of Hayfield, and nicknamed the Weeping Eye.

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Closeup view of the Weeping Eye Rock

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Weeping Eye Rock
Oil painting by Jack Harris, naturalist in Riverside





Photographs



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Scenes around the area
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Rocks

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Plants
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Wildlife


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