Yellow No. 1.
Golden columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Tag: Phoenix
Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) visiting Parry’s beardtongue (Penstemon parryi). At the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Cactus tone poem.
Texas mountain laurel
(Sophora secundiflora), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
These flowers are mostly faded and going to seed here in the valley. At their peak they smell unmistakably like Nehi grape soda.
Also: A member of the Fabacaea. Emphatically: Not a laurel.
Untitled.
Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii), foraging mesquite seeds at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Claret cup hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Claret cup.
Claret cup hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Cactus wren. Cactus.
Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Nopal.
Dithyramb 