May 17 and May 19
A Friday and a Sunday. No work on Friday, so nothing new to show you on the house front. But a walk in the 95 degree heat provided new things to enjoy, even on the same old road.
And it is really not 95 degrees in the shade, but I thought you would be impressed that we all went hiking despite the heat!
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May 17
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- Friday Cloud Dancers
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- Almost like musical notes
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- Prolific berries
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- Bella thinks this berry bush is beautiful (yes, alliteration is a fav of mine)
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- It is a sotol cactus rocket!
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- There are so many suddenly appearing now.
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- This looks like a corn stalk by Tim Burton. Blowing smoke rings.
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- Mmmmm. Yummy (not).
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- Bella seeks the shade
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- A cholla close-up: so delicate but don’t touch!
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- Some ancient remnant of something–like a petrified giraffe leg…
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- Yucca? What?
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- Spring flowers are reviving due to the rain
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- Gentle and bright
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- Cholla with dead spots. I wonder what happens to the live ends with the dead spots in the middle?
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- Bees! And pond scum.
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- Bella will seek shade anywhere
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- I found us a juniper tree. I think. Anyway, we can all sit under it.
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- Actually quite pleasant in the shade
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- Something new that reminds me of holly
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- Looks like desert more than usual today…I believe the white spots in the distant center are McDonald Observatory.
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- Double sotol!
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- Like markers to some special spot
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- This one looks more like a walking stick (eventually)
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- So different from the one that looks like corn…
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- Speaking of Tim Burton…
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- Yuccas all seem to decline in a different way…
May 19
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- Hard to find any shade here…
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- But Bella still tries.
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- This mesquite tree is doing better though
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- And its branches are strong.
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- Purple flowers are staging a comeback!
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- And the sotol just keeps reaching for the sky.
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- Yuccas are becoming odder and odder…
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- Reaching the end of their spring.
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- Sotols are everywhere now
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- While the yuccas are on their last legs
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- The last of the pickles
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- On the road home, what is this??!
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- What will these blooms be like?
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- Another desert mountain mystery
