A long-horned bee (probably in the genus Melissodes) on a pricklypear blossom. At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
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Cactus flower.
Mammatus clouds over Glendale, Arizona.
Anger hath a privilege.
Spoken by the Earl of Kent in Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Male and female jojoba flowers (Simmondsia chinensis), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Etymology note: Despite it’s specific name, jojoba is a plant of the desert southwest, and is not remotely Chinese. The botanist who originally assigned scientific epithets for the plant misread a collection label, mistaking a scrawled Calif for China. Jojoba is a transliteration of the O’odham name for the plant: Hohowi.
Nopal bebé.
At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Sahauro Ranch roses.
You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto
Let’s call the whole thing off .
Green lacewing. Glendale, Arizona.
Green lacewing egg. The stalk is only about 0.5 cm long, so the egg itself is very small indeed.
In Glendale, Arizona.
Dithyramb 