We went to the dessert nursery today to get some shrubs for the courtyard. Our sage bushes have been failing, so we decided to replace them with something else. We bought some little shrubs similar to bottle brush that have red flowers.
While I was at the nursery, I took some photos of their flowers. This yellow Ranunculus (I think) was one of the prettier non-cactus flowers that I saw today. Click on the image to enlarge.
I purloined this image from the FecesBook® thing. Our granddaughter decided to cut little Alex’s hair into a Mohawk and spike it with red dye for this shot. Badass Baby Great Grandson with tattoos and all. Click on the image to enlarge.
We have already had several of our beavertail cactus blooming with their pink flowers, but now, the hedgehog that we transplanted from the back of the property to down front where we can see ti, is currently showing several of its own pink flowers.
The other hedgehogs here down below have buds but no flowers yet. We are looking forward to seeing those real soon.
Elsewhere in the rock and cactus garden, there are several varieties of prickly pear cacti with numerous buds that will soon be showing their yellow flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.
A while back, I bought a bunch of silver egg-shaped decorations which I hung out on the palo verde tree in front of the house for the Easter holiday season. I was going down to the road to take pictures of a couple of hedgehog flowers that opened today and I paused long enough to take this photo of one of the eggs which turned out to be a self-portrait of me and my camera. Click on the image to enlarge.
This image is cropped from a 3D Photo found on Astronomy Picture of the Day:
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across Ceres at mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons. Shown in a 3D anaglyph perspective view, the mosaicked image data was captured in December of 2015, taken from the Dawn spacecraft’s low-altitude mapping orbit about 385 kilometers above the surface of the dwarf planet. A remarkable dome-shaped feature on Ceres, with steep, smooth sides Ahuna Mons is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter at its base, rising on average 4 kilometers to a flattened summit. Similar in size to mountains found on planet Earth, no other Cerean surface feature is so tall and well-defined. It is not known what process shaped the lonely Ahuna Mons, or if the bright material streaking its steepest side is the same material responsible for Ceres’ famous bright spots.
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS/DLR/IDA
