Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California,

now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert during that magical time when the cold winter desert becomes an

Eden of wildflowers.

We luxuriate in the spring warmth.

The birds are just delirious, just like that.

It's springtime or almost.

Way up here in the Mojave Mountains.

The... way up here in the Mojave Mountains.

There's nothing better than the desert in springtime.

Most people say that.

Up here around Pioneer Town and Pipes Canyon, it's still chilly at night, the mornings too.

A little warmer, up in Landers, out in Lucerne Valley.

Still cold, way up in lone pine, after dark anyway.

The mountains make the difference. Who said that?

I think it was Lee Harvey Oswald.

You get close to sea level on the Sonoran Desert, where the Colorado River meets the Sea of Cortez, the Gulf of California.

And it's already hot.

They've already had highs in the 90s and then the wind comes in

and it's 20 degrees cooler

we are at relatively high elevation

up here in the Morongo Basin, outside our famous national park,

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