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| Hugging the western flank of Tortugas |
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| Skirting along the foothills |
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| A ripe Prickly Pear |
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| Coyotes eat these fruits despite the thorns |
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| A happy stand of Ocotillos (okay, that's anthropomorphism) |
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| Heavy clouds draped over the Organ Mountains |
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| In the west a hint of blue |
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| Do we really have to go this way? |
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| A patch of blue |
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| Striated sky |
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| Dark and light |
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| In the distance Picacho (Sp. = "peak"), northwest side of Las Cruces |
3 comments:
I really like the darker shades of the desert because of the cloud cover.
It looks like there was rain over Organs--or a least a threat thereof.
Our white-tailed deer eat our multiflora rosebushes. The roses don't have thorns like the cacti, but they do have thorns. I wonder how they do it.
Incidentally, three of your images didn't display when I logged on this morning--just blank spaces with captions.
I'm sure I mentioned this before, Scott, but once, when Dr. K and I were inhabiting one of the stone cabins in Big Bend's Chisos Mountains, we watched several javelinas munching merrily on the pads of Prickly Pear Cacti. We could hear the spines crunching, presumably against the hard palates of the peccaries.
Can't say why some of the images didn't show on your computer.
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