New blossoms in the rain!
Pre-rainstorm cholla and bird nest. What a brave little critter!
Life will out!
June is the cruelest month in Arizona, especially when it lasts til the end of July. This is the waiting for the monsoon month. And even when the June monsoon doesn't arrive until August and lasts into September it is worth the wait.
A couple of weeks ago we drove up behind Mt Hopkins. Everything was thirsty. The road was dusty and finally just gave way to intermittent faint tracks through the cactus. But up behind the mountain we got just the lightest sprinkling of rain, and on the way back down the dusty, gray-green cholla had burst into bloom. That's the desert for you.
Take what you can get and use it with exuberance!!
1 comment:
What beautiful pictures!
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