This is the beginning of the Joshua Tree National Park.

This is a blossom on a Cholla Cactus.

This is the Cholla Cactus. They say don't touch or even let clothes touch the cactus because it will just grab hold. If it gets into the skin it is very hard and painful to get it out. They had what they called a path through the Cholla Cactus Garden, so you had to be careful.

This is suppose to show you how the huge boulders came out of the mountain years ago. You'll see the huge boulder closer in a couple of pictures after this.

This is actually what the National Park is named after, this is a Joshua Tree.

Huge boulders that they say came up out of the ground many many many years ago. They were huge.

This was a beautiful view. We had crested a hill and this was looking into a valley and across to mountains higher than us with snow on those mountains.