Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Mid-April 2025 Lake Mohave Bass Fishing

The desert morning greeted us with that peculiar stillness that only those who've spent time in the Southwest truly understand. As I sipped my coffee on the porch of our modest desert retreat in the foothills above Lake Mohave, I watched the sun crawl above the...

The Sonoran Desert in Bloom

There's something about the desert that speaks to my soul. Perhaps it's the stark contrast to my Kansas upbringing, where the rolling Flint Hills offered a different kind of beauty altogether. Out here in the Sonoran Desert during springtime, though... well, that's a...

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Sunset on Mohave Lake View Ranchos

There's something about the way the light changes in the desert that reminds me of my childhood on the Kansas prairie. Different landscapes entirely, but that same vast sky, that same feeling of being small beneath an endless canvas of blue that slowly transforms into...

Capturing the Essence of Southwest Wilderness

An Afternoon on Lake Mohave The morning light crept over the Black Mountain foothills, casting long shadows across our ranch-style home. At my age, there's nothing quite like the anticipation of a day on the water, especially when Lake Mohave beckons with its...

Dawn with Paulette and Her Mojave Sanctuary

Desert Whispers The pale February sun had barely lifted itself above the ragged eastern Black Mountain hills when I first spotted Paulette making her way through the garden. From my vantage point on the ridge—camera in hand as always—I watched her emerge from the...

Where Desert Dreams Take Flight

There she lies, eternal and unchanging, her profile etched against the azure Arizona sky like a painting that's been there since time began. Sleeping Princess Mesa, as we've always called her, rests peacefully in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, watching over the...

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Bass Fishing March 28, 2021

Bass Fishing March 28, 2021

Cottonwood Cove Resort & Marina located right in the center. It begins at Davis Dam in Bullhead City, Arizona and is just 14 miles east of historic Searchlight, Nevada, only 45 minutes north of Laughlin and an hour south of Las Vegas.

Black Mountains Cabin

Black Mountains Cabin

The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending 75 miles long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam....

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Replicas of real lighthouses line the shore of Lake Havasu, Arizona. This beautiful scene unfolded one sunset evening in December 2019. Each of Lake Havasu’s lighthouses is a 1/3 scale replica of a famous American lighthouses, and is not a true lighthouse but instead...

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

The best time of the year to fish for striped bass is April through November with the peak in October. For largemouth bass March through June is generally best and for rainbow trout anytime they are stocked (November through March) At 647-foot elevation, the Lake...

Progressive Socialism

Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell

Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final...

Progressive Socialism

5 Socialism Myths

Socialism is now as popular as capitalism among young people. That’s because they are being told nonsense. “Myth 1”. Whenever socialism fails people always say, “but that wasn’t ‘real’ socialism.”

Rainy Day Campfire

Rainy Day Campfire

Celebating the first significant rain at Casa Codorniz in almost two years we enjoyed a campfire. Lake Mohave in the background. Lake Mohave is located south of the Hoover Dam along the Colorado River in the southern end of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It's...

Colorado River Laughlin, Nevada Christmas Night 2020 FZ2500

Colorado River Laughlin, Nevada Christmas Night 2020

Christmas Night fireworks over the Colorado River. Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly 90 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos...