Long Bushwhack with Willow

Blooming Faxon Yucca

Willow and I got an early start this morning and almost immediately got off trail to photograph the yucca in the first image here.  We then followed LDR-A arroyo down to the cross trail, but headed north past the Tellbrook Arroyo to do some extensive bushwhacking in the many side arroyos there.  Fortunately we came across a few blossoming yuccas that made for good images.  We spotted both Mrs. Basset and her hounds as well as three hikers in the northwest desert, perhaps Two-White-Dogs-Lady +2.  The Wilster and I were out in the desert for nearly two hours today.

Desert Marigold

Willow staring down an arroyo

Phacelia, prickly pear, spectaclepod, barrel and hedgehog

Poor photo of a Desert Cardinal

Hedgehog cactus

Yucca flowering west of Tortugas

Looks to be a Say's Phoebe

This & next:  blooming yucca

 

Barrel cacti and blooming yucca

Wright's Deervetch(?)

Artsy kestrel