Photos from the Desert...

...while geocaching this past week.

The temps dropped for two days last week from the 90º-100º of earlier in the week, so I was ready for a little walk in the desert and a ride in Lil' Red.

This cache was placed by our geo-friends who helped with the cake for the 20K surprise. 

It was a short walk into the desert from our resort. An easy find, but a fun two-step cache.

Lil' Red has been out of commission and at the doctor for about a week. She needed to have some seals replaced as she was leaving marks wherever she was parked. We had a few more caches to find on Friday after our walk. You can see how brown the desert is right now. This is a view of the Superstition Mountain; Flatiron is to the left and 5057 is the highest peak on the right.

Amazing to me to see how chewed this saguaro arm is and then to see the new arm growing on the top! (That is how arms typically grow and why I say Susie's saguaro will not be growing a typical arm.)

At least these shrubs and bushes give the appearance of some green in the desert.

lots of saguaro buds on this adventure

notice how they USUALLY appear on the crown????

unlike Mariam's saguaro

this saguaro has 8 arms

and all arms have buds on the crowns

Gold Canyon is considered an affluent neighborhood with some pretty fancy homes to some famous people...and some very modest homes to less famous, and mostly retired folks. This must be one of the former.

This was another home of probably the former group. It has an infinity pool with an awesome view of the Superstition Mountain that no one will mar with another home in their lifetime.

It was a good trip into the desert on a more reasonably temperature day.