Abbreviated Trek

Scott's Oriole on dead flower stalk

Shopping day at the hacienda means that I have to cut our morning hike a little short in order to get home, shower and go to Target and Albertsons before those stores become overcrowded.  Although Becca and I did an abbreviated trek--not venturing into the outback west of the mountain--we still saw a lot of interesting subjects worth photographing.

Same Scott's Oriole on a yucca bayonet

The same Scott's Oriole and UFO (looks like a bee)

Down the single-track

I think this might be Hairy-seed Bahia

Hairy-seed Bahia?

Opening soon at a Prickly Pear near you

Longleaf Mormon Tea flowers

Desert Zinnia

Old and new flower stalks of the Soaptree Yucca

Soaptree Yucca putting up flower stalks

Wooly Paperflower

Ocotillo flowers

Just west of Turtle Mountain

Leafless Ocotillo

Some sky

Rush Skeletonplant

Rush Skeletonplant

Rush Skeletonplant (Lygodesmia juncea)

Mesquite Tree in bloom