I will arrange better these photographs from our Feb 15-16 trip to the Joshua Tree National Park when I get some time, and also add more comments (and make it into a slide show).
Towards the end are also photographs of the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve near Joshua Tree.
Click on photographs to enlarge.

(Take me to the slide show)

The hidden Valley

Rock climber

Anu, Jay, Radhika

Info plates (and Pinyon pine)

Panorama

sights

High Key (Note Salton Sea in the second picture)

Parker Dam (Waltz, my mirror, stay away, E.T. etc.

At the campground (hadel-hupp and marshmellows)

Moon viz. e4f3.2, e16f3.2, e16f8

Hi point (Note Shreesh making a point)

Cholla Cactus Garden (last-but-one: pencil cactus - sharper throns)

Ocotillo (O-ko-tiyyo) Every rain is spring - new leaves

Cottonwood springs and Mastadon Peak trek

From the Cottonwood visitor center

Big Morongo Canyon Preserve

People

Tree Frogs (don't live in trees) Can you miss the baloon?

Vista

Water Bug

Vegetation

Butterfly and fern

Birds (Nuttal's woodpecker and ?)