The desert can be spectacular in the Spring if winter rains come at just the right time.
Every year is different so you can never count on the bloom to happen.
No flowers on this Cholla but there is new growth at the tips.
This is Ocotillo.
And these are the flowers of the Ocotillo.
These haven't opened yet.
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One of the things I want to see in Australia are the spring flowers in the deserts of Western Australia - they look wonderful.
The Fatal Shore is a really good book - I think I may have to read it again.
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
If the desert get flowers, they really jumps in the picture by color and form. Totally different of the normal desert inhabitants. Very interesting.
Some spectacular photo's of the blooming desert.
Beautiful!
Lea
Lovely! Life is all around, if only we take the time to look.
John, so much more beautiful than your mushrooms! ;-)
Oh, my, I love that last flower shot...before they have all opened. Not that I don't like it after...just that one is excellent!
how beautiful!
Spring flowers already! Hurray!
I'm hoping we can visit Las Vegas in the Spring and see some of the wonderful flowers and new growth. Love your photos.
Since we bought a little 'snowbird' casita in the desert of southern Utah, I've gained a great appreciation for desert beauty. We have planted an ocotillo along with other varieties of cacti in our little yard, and am anxious to see them bloom this spring.
I do love Ocotillos. There is an area south of Tombstone that is full of them.
The desert in bloom is a wonderful sight.
A friend of mine worked on a TV documentary about desert flowers. Of course, the rain couldn't be guaranteed to arrive at the same time as the film crew so they took huge water-tankers out there and watered an acre or so of ground. The variety of flowers which appeared "from nowhere" was astonishing.
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