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What’s blooming on the North Rim?

01 New Mexico Locust flower buds NR GRCA NP AZ (1024x767)

At 8200 feet summer blooms come a little late. Yet summer is certainly here at daily temperatures reaching 80 degrees.

02 New Mexico Locust flowers NR GRCA NP AZ (768x1024)

This New Mexico Locust, Robinia neomexicana, is part of the Legume Family and the pea-shaped flowers taste like, you guessed it, peas. But watch out for the thorns.

Hope to get out tomorrow to see what else is in bloom.

Arizona, flowers, Grand Canyon NP North Rim, New Mexico Locust, RV lifestyle 13 Comments

Diverse walk in the Weavers

01 Hedgehog cactus blooms Weaver mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

I’ve been home in Yarnell this weekend and it feels like summer. (Especially compared to the snow on the North Rim.)

02 Cactus anomoly Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x689)

Cactus blooming…

03 Poppies Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…flowers popping with color.04 Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

Every where I turned something caught my eye.

05 Century Plant Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

Or caught my pants.

06 Looking SE towards Yarnell Weaver Mts AZ (800x600)

What a beautiful world we live in.

07 Unknown colorful bug Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

From the small and unusual…

08 Ferns under rock Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…to a tiny hidden alcove of usual desert plants.

09 Mike Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (600x800)

We can look down on the world from above,

10 Turkey vulture Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x665)

or look up at the sky from below.

11 Granite lizard Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

As life scurries along,

12 Gaelyn Weaver Mts yarnell AZ (800x600)

I just want to enjoy it all.

13 Unknown flower Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The sun reflects on one flower,

14 Tiny unknown white flowers Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (600x800)

and barely finds another.

15 Old Century Plant stalks reach for the sky above the boulders Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The old stalks may lean towards the earth…

16 Young Century Plant stalk against boulder background Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…while the young reach for the sky.

17 Pond Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

And water gathers in the draw…

18 Dragonflies on pond Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…providing a playground.

Arizona, cactus, desert, flowers, Spring, Weaver Mts, Yarnell 15 Comments

MWT – Berta’s Best Beautiful Blooms

Don’t screw with this beautiful lady
Although it’s beginning to feel like winter here last week when I went to Yarnell it was barely fall. The little apartment in the back is where I stayed. I’ll have to post pics of this cozy space.

Petunia, dianthus, impatience and begonia
Berta has an amazing green thumb and many well cared for flowers were still in bloom by her house.

Petunia and dianthus
Of course I had to call her this morning to find out what most of them are.

Purple heart, maybe
This wonderful purple seems to grow everywhere. My Mom has it in Texas and Berta used to grow it in Oregon. Yet I had to google it and this is my closest guess. Feel free to correct me.

Coleus, I think
Berta couldn’t remember the name of this one bought in a four inch pot. We both think it’s from the same family as Coleus. Again, feel free to pitch in.

Echiveria
Some of her plants are overflowing the containers. I love how creative Berta is with her flower pots, using baskets and bowls, or whatever comes to hand (usually through a thrift store).

Oak gall
A lot of oak grows in this area and I’m not sure if it’s the Emory Oak or Arizona White Oak. I’ll have to look closer when I get home. The twigs are heavy with galls mostly no bigger than half an inch that remind me of Christmas ornaments. A gallwasp injects its eggs in the plant tissue which causes the tree to form a gall. Then larva develops into pupa and eventually the adult chews its way out of the gall. Supposedly this doesn’t kill the tree, maybe some of the twigs and leaves.

It was so nice to be home with dear friends.

Only a couple more weeks and I’ll be back for the winter. I’m so ready.

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