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.

The land of the champagne climate.

I used to put that on the real estate brochures where I lived for a while out by Phelan and Pinyon Hills,

the Cajon Pass side of the high desert,

about where David Hockney took a couple hundred clear, striking photographs of a crossroads at the 138 or

pear blossom highway like the finished artwork is called more than 800 photographs

say the experts I've never counted them all myself, although I have seen the real thing.

I think it was at the Gettie in Los Angeles a long time ago, but for reasons I've never been able to find out.

David Hockney's most famous and beloved work along with a couple of those swimming pool paintings

is not

displayed there at the Getty anymore

at the museum in the city

where everybody is nuts

for Joshua trees

hasn't been out for years hasn't been out for years

and these are two of probably the most famous

famous photo collages on earth

two variations with jarring differences.

The second version of Pear Blossom Highway, 11, 18 April, 1986.

There's a serenity to it.

The sky is radiating a welcoming blue.

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