Garth and Trisha Are in Town

Yucca and observatory

I don't know if the extra-large crowd out at the mountain this morning had to do with the large number of out-of-towners here for the Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood concerts (5 in 3 days!), but I'm guessing so.  Becca and I were almost expecting to see Garth and Trisha hiking in the desert.  We didn't see them, but we saw a lot of other, more interesting, things in our section of the northern Chihuahuan Desert, some of them recorded as images here.

Soaptree Yucca putting up a flower stalk

Cow's Tongue Cactus

A clown with something in its mouth?

This Hedgehog Cactus had a most distinctively-colored flower

Mormon Tea flowering

Claret Cups

Prickly Pear pad, Ocotillo wand and Claret Cups

New growth on a Prickly Pear pad

How to find shade in the Chihuahuan Desert

Now this is relaxing

Senna flower

Desert Marigold not quite open for business

Flowers on a leafless Ocotillo

How to send up a spiny flower stalk

The top of a Soaptree Yucca flower stalk

Another shade break

These clouds were once contrails

Pale Evening Primrose

Claret Cups and Littlealeaf Ratany

Loggerhead Shrike on an Ocotillo branch

Lots of flowers on an Ocotillo