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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Yuccas-R-Us


This late-blooming yucca caught our eyes this morning on the Tortugas Mountain trail. It was a pretty big specimen, standing, I'd guess, at about eight feet tall.
Closeup of the yucca flowers with the mountaintop in the background.
At left, an interesting large yucca with an inverted-cowboy-spur appearance.
Closeup of the flowers atop a soaptree yucca, the old observatory in the background.
The kind of flower planter you don't want to encounter in the desert.

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

I can't get over how green the desert is; it's like a beautiful oasis.

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