Thursday, March 20, 2014

Lil' Red Visits the Desert

We spent some time one morning last week in the desert looking for geocaches, snakes, scorpions, and blooming cacti. We found two of the four.


The buds on a Staghorn Cholla


staghorn cholla
About a week or two early for these flowers


A bud on the left side of this hedgehog cactus


More staghorn buds


No buds or flowers on this Teddy Bear Cholla


Some of the Ocotillo were blooming


It is a tall whip-like plant


with many yellow & red flowers





It looks like a clump of candy corn


A Pink-flowered Hedgehog Cactus OR an Engelmann Hedgehog


Another that had open very recently


The red fruit on an Arizona Pencil Cholla
left from last year's flower


American Threefold shrub


A different staghorn cholla in bloom





More staghorn buds


And one that has just opened


Another hedgehog in bloom


A different yellow flowering bush, Desert Coreopsis

If the desert is beginning to bloom, that means
I need to make a trip to St. George's Catholic Church
Stay Tuned...

Oh, yes...
We found the geocaches and the blooming cacti
No snakes & No scorpions!


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