Here are some of my phone photos from our first trip (Tuesday) to work on the Love Letters.
the green desert
Dromedary Peak
our landmark and focal point for the Love Letters
dainty blue flowers on the desert floor
I tried a close-up, but it is not worthy of sharing
I'll see more of them and try again
some of the hedgehog cacti are blooming
often the first blooming cactus in the wild
globe mallow
soon-to-flower stag horn cactus
steers are pasturing on this state trust land
eating the abundant grass and reducing
the summer fire danger
they cane to the mud hole near where we parked
they are checking on me
as you can see, I kept the truck between us
another stag horn soon-to-flower
darker colored hedge hog flowers
And finally, our wildlife sighting of the day...a rattlesnake...
I noticed it slithering along the road as were headed back to the highway. I yelled, "Rattlesnake!" and the truck came to an immediate stop. The snake was in no way interested in the 3 of us. (If you enlarge the photo, click on it, you can see the snake's path. It crawled under the truck before Terry stopped, turned around and slithered into the grass near the tree.)
Hubby is wearing his snake guards, leather cameod chaps. Terry would not have been very protected had we met this guy coiled and rattling in the desert growth. Luckily, we did not. This was a very good place to see a rattlesnake. Notice how far away I am from the slithering reptile. That's only because I already had my photos!!!
Love Letters at the end of Tuesday
Love you guys 😏
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