Purple Prickly Pear
This cactus below used to come up to my knees when I bought it 4 years ago. It' now over 7 feet tall. It finally bloomed for the first time this year. The blooms are big and begin to open in the evening...by the next morning they are in full bloom. By that evening they have expired.
Bloom in the early morning...
A different flower that bloomed earlier that day...
Small golden barrel cactus
Spring time flowers bloom in the Sonoran Desert. This was taken at the White Tank Mountains minutes from my house where a friend and I hike every Saturday morning....well, almost every Saturday.
These petroglyphs found in the White Tanks were made by the Hohokam Indians and date from about 500 to 1100 A.D. Some, however, are believed to be as much as 10,000 years old.
Infrequent heavy rains race through the canyons, pour down chutes and over ledges onto the plains below. These torrential currents have scoured out a series of depressions, or "tanks", in the white granite, hence the name. My sister and I hiked up Waterfall Canyon Trail where there is a 75 foot waterfall ( usually no more than a trickle except immediately following a heavy downpour )
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