More Spring Blooms

The flower season in the southwestern deserts is becoming outstanding! It's running a little late due to the cool, wet weather, but it's worth the wait! Here are a couple beavertail cactus blooms, with loads of buds waiting to flash their stuff.

Desert chicory adds a splash of white to the scene.

A particularly prolific hedgehog in White Tank Mountain Regional Park, west of Phoenix. I've been to this park at least a dozen times in the last five years and have never seen it this beautiful.

I found this barrel cactus at Thunderbird Park, in far north Glendale, 10-15 miles north of Phoenix. Hadn't been there before...lots of fine hiking trails.

Not a flower, but a neat cholla skeleton.