The week has produced a major influx of new flower appearances in the desert. We have started seeing our first Globe Mallows
This year also seems to have produced a bumper crop of Chicory's
We have seen our first beautiful Blue Dicks
and we think Wild Heliotropes
The Fairy Dusters are not having a good year so far. Most of the bushes have rather peaked blooms and there are not very many of them. This one is as healthy as we have seen so far.
No flowers on the ocotillo yet but the leaves are greening up nicely.
Another first sighting was a Desert Poppy along with a Globe Mallow
There ore other things to look at than flowers, it takes my wife's sharp eyes and just the right light to spy a spider web like this.
And sometimes it is just a nice group of stones and fresh new greenery. Just a short geologic note here. When you see large rounded boulders like this, you are looking at the results of massive long ago water flows powerful enough to pick them up and move them down the mountains and onto the flood plains below.
You might think that we spend all our time at Sabino Canyon, but that is not completely true. This past week we also journeyed to the Arizona State Museum to review our familiarity with their fine exhibit on the native peoples of the Sonoran Desert and a new exhibit of dance masks created for festivals.
Some are humanoid
Some are animal based.
But they are all stupendous
Coming up are some more play reviews and some other nature shots. Bye!
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