Magical Mystery Rainbow Clouds in Joshua Tree

Near Skull Rock, Joshua Tree, Monday, Apr. 15, 2019. Photo by Patty Jones

Some of your OB Rag crew spent the last few days up in Joshua Tree.

And on Monday we saw these magical mystery rainbow clouds in the sky over Skull Rock. It’s not a Rainbow. What is it?

Frank Gormlie
A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

5 thoughts on “Magical Mystery Rainbow Clouds in Joshua Tree

  1. Amazing. Thanks for the photo and thanks Butch for the link about sunbows.

    Went to Agua Caliente County Park last month in Anza Borrego but was hoping to make it to Joshua Tree this month but stuff comes up — probably too late now with winter over.

    As Ken Burns says, our public park system is “America’s Best Idea” and, obrag readers, you really owe it to yourself to check out San Diego’s most accessible National Park.

    A lot of people think of Borrego when they want to go desert flowering, but some of the most spectacular flowers I’ve ever seen — desert marigolds, mojave asters and more — were in Joshua Tree, especially the southern, Colorado Desert region. They’ve come and gone this year, but I’d be interested to hear a report from anyone who was there during the peak.

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