Managing Memories

For all my friends who wondered about the varied colors of globemallows, this
is the color/type seen commonly around the Northern part of Arizona.  

This butte is large.  For scale note the power-line tower in the lower right.  And I wondered later why I hadn't made an attempt to climb this thing. . . y'know, just for the view.

It was hot down at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument even as leaves
on the Ocotillo indicate that it had rained within the last two weeks.  The flowers
were a bonus.

A skeletal bush filters the sunlight at Saguaro National Park.

 Tombstone Territory presents a more sylvan side than its gunfighter
reputation.

Pretty to look at, hellish to hike.   The first 300 yds., at least, were downhill . . . all the rest was just hot rock.

Colors of the Desert

We took a road-trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in the southwest part of Arizona, south of Ajo, close to the border.  After several days we drove north and east to Saguaro West National Park, up toward Eloy.  Following are some pics.

Hello!

Desert at Sunset

Spines and Flowers

Foothill Paloverde at Sunset

Skinny

Flower and Spines

 Saguaro Sunset