On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Along my hike this past Thursday I came across some interesting
> wildflowers, some of which I haven't seen in years and a few that I have
> never seen before.
>
>
> At higher elevations some Ocotillo were found, and this one was in
> full bloom:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8644811991/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8644812069/in/photostream
>
Interesting. When Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship first
made the journey to Phoenix for the winter of 1926, they set up a temporary
camp and named it Ocotillo after the plant. I hadn't seen one until your
photo.
> My goal for this part of the hike was to get to a ridge where I could
> take an unobstructed photo of a volcanic neck, which is the lava portion of
> a shield volcano where the cinders and ash have been aroded away:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8644746131/in/photostream
>
>
> Very nice desert landscape shot.
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