The Autumn Equinox

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

September 22 is the day & 11:19 a.m. is the hour when Fall finally arrives in the Mojave Desert. Add an hour for Nevada and Utah, which both share a little of the Mojave with California and Arizona. While it's still hot on the desert floor, the mountains are cool and the aspens are changing color. Too far from the aspen groves? If you're in the desert, there are Fremont's cottonwoods somewhere near you, and few trees have such fantastic fall colors. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne.

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0:00.0	Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:09.0	Well, some of you asked for a little tour of the garden, so why not today?
0:20.8	The desert willow
0:22.8	smells very nice and looks very happy
0:27.1	after a good soaking
0:30.6	from the monsoon rains
0:34.1	last night and the day before
0:36.3	and this morning two days before that. Yeah. soon rains last night and the day before.
0:40.4	And this morning, two days before that.
0:56.3	The wash is all cleaned up of tire tracks, human tracks.
1:09.0	Once I was walking at the edge of the National Park, I'll past Joshua Tree.
1:13.3	After a storm like this,
1:21.3	and I saw a gal out there on a bicycle, a mountain bike,
1:28.1	who was in a celebratory mood because she said the trail was, quote,
1:33.3	hero dirt, quote, like a hero in a story, I guess.
1:42.7	I guess there are no previous tire tracks in the heroic epics.
1:54.0	The Mormon tea is looking good.
1:59.0	A silver choyah growing from the edge of it.
2:05.1	This single Mormon tea plant is...
2:12.6	It is about 25, 26 feet around.
2:23.3	And then we have the lesser brush, the black brush, the cheese brush not much sagebrush there are a few desert buckwheat well here's a Joshua tree
2:54.1	coming up
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