We were visiting an historic monument today when I saw bees getting in to these bottle brush flowers. I mean literally completely getting down to the stem among the little red bristles, getting their entire bodies inside the brush. It was so funny and beautiful at the same time. Click on the image to see if you can see their little stingers sticking out.
This is what is growing in the neighborhood where we’re planning to be some day. We went out for a drive today and saw this beautiful cholla flower. Late spring is a nice time to be in Arizona. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is the Cholla (choy-a) Gardens along the roadway north of the I-10 entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. I cropped the thumbnail image to about the first 90 degrees of a 270 degree view. I took the images used to compose this panorama on Friday as we were headed home. Click to view the entire panorama.
Seen today in Joshua Tree National Park. The Indian Paintbrush is found in gravelly flats and rocky areas in the California desert. I love the red color of these flowers.
Click on the image to enjoy this panorama showing the view down the draw facing southwest from Keys View lookout point in Joshua Tree National Park. In the distance, you can see the two dominant snow-capped peaks overlooking the Banning Pass; Mount San Jacinto and Mount San Gorgonio. In the valley below, you can see the darker group of hills that mark the boundary of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates, also known as the San Andreas Fault.
Tonight, we’re staying in the delightfully rustic and comfortable Sunnyvale Garden Suites near Joshua Tree National Park, in Twentynine Palms, in the Mojave Desert, California. We’re staying here for a couple of nights while we’re visiting the park.
The place is a collection of suites situated on a patch of property that is landscaped and decorated like one might find in a desert ghost town. There are many types of desert vegetation and cactus here. I took this 3D image while we were returning from an afternoon walkabout.
As usual, if you do not have your free pair of 3D glasses, you can see the 2D image here.
