cdpositive: Beautiful picture! Arizona's spectacular weather, sunsets, rock formations, flowers (year round!) never cease to amaze! Not to ignore the wildlife!

None of that rain is touching the ground. It's called a virga. The rain evaporates before it can quench the soil. Northern Arizona pre monsoon season.

Beautiful picture! Arizona's spectacular weather, sunsets, rock formations, flowers (year round!) never cease to amaze! Not to ignore the wildlife!

Thanks. You say, flowers? These were incredible until the Cactus wren ate them. the cacti are about the size of a tennis ball.

Wow, that's georgious! Cactus do try to make up for being so prickly. 😂

Found these while riding Jake. We were in the middle of where someone had dumped a truckload of broken glass, and we were carefully negotiating our way out of it when these beauties showed up. Drove back to as close as I could get and grabbed a few and potted them. pic is 1 yr after transplant.

They are doing really well! Volunteer native plants will surprise, if given just a little tlc (aka water/shade) to get them started.

Were. cactus wrens ate every bit of them after 2 years of growth. I was bummed and never found another group to hijack. Someone once gave me the name while on Post, but I forgot to write it down or where I put it if I did. Most beautiful cactus I've ever seen in bloom. Benign little things when not

Oh, that's too bad! Have you checked with Google search (of the picture)? At least that might be a place to start (for the name) in case any of the local nurseries could help replace it. If you found it it Arizona, I'm sure ASU has it cataloged!

About the only things that grow well out there are prickly. That may include the people.

Thanks, I can only take credit for being there.

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