For the unfamiliar, Mojave is a National Park Service unit in the "angle" between I-15 and I-40, about dead center in the Mojave Desert in northeastern southern California. It's primitive, with less in the way of amenities than many national monuments, let alone national parks. I was out there as part of a vacation late last month. The big hotting up did kill "superblooms" in lower elevations of both the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, especially because it lingered a second week. (110 F, Furnace Creek visitor center at DV, Wednesday March 25.) But, at higher elevations, while they still had record-shattering temperatures, it wasn't enough to wipe out all the blooms. The east side of Mojave is largely above 3300 feet or 1000 meters, and so, the results pictured above. In order: Notch-leaf scorpion-weed (and other names) Wallace's wooly daisy Desert globemallow Mojave woody aster "Beavertail" prickly pear. I'll drop a few butterflies in another post.…