Photoblogging the Lunch Break

[dancinghorse]

In between deadlines, on a lovely spring day (didn't even crack 90F today--unheard of in mid-May), I went out to feed the horses their lunch. With something for birdhousefrog.


The desert in an image: prickly pear in bloom, with wild zinnia:



For birdhousefrog, here's the blooming version of the cholla with the cool geometry:



It grows up through and around a mesquite tree:



And in closeup:



The herd wanted to know what I was doing all the way out there:



SRSLY, said Tia (l.) and Ephiny:



A few minutes earlier, the Ladies Who Lunch (Camilla and Ephiny):



The Last Homely House West of the Rincons:

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, how gorgeous.

And I love that ears up curious horse face.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

So pretty! I'd never seen a prickly pear in bloom before! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Beautiful.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

That cholla is GORGEOUS! Thank you. I think Beth said it's a staghorn cholla. Someone suggested that. It looked so dead on the 1st of May and then it just pops out those red and yellow beauties. Oh my!

thankyewthankyewthankyewthankyew.

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

These lovelies are -so gorgeous- - both the four-feets and the plants. Love the Ladies who Lunch pic!!