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Friday, February 27, 2009

Thorny Problem


I like spring as much as the next person, but I don't want it to start in the third week of February. But flowers are beginning to bloom in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Closeup of the thorns on a Prickly Pear cactus.

The barbed thorns of the Ocotillo.

Desert flora in an arroyo bottom.



A single-track mountain bike trail through the desert sagebrush.

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