Judy helping the neighbor boys paint this morning.
I finished this pine needle masterpiece yesterday. It has a seed in the bottom that my friend Toni found on the beach in Florida and the seeds on the side are from the locust tree next door to our house in Fort Collins. The beads are gold stone. It is 8 inches in diameter and 2 3/4 inches high. It was cool today, only a high of 93. I got out early enough to hike, with a wet t shirt on. Amazingly the flowers are still blooming. They will burn up soon in this heat. Pink monkey flowers along the path and yellow blooming brittle bushes.
I have been wondering what the patches of yellow I have been seeing in the distance are so I hiked up to them. They are fields of desert trumpets with millions of their tiny 1/8 inch yellow flowers.
4 pictures of the desert trumpet little flowers. The only way they would photograph well was in the shade - of my head. Brittle bush blooms, broad-leaf gily-flower, lilac bonnets and desert gold.
Desert gold. Brittle bushes.
These tiny desert gem daisies carpet broad areas, big 5 spot plant. This really bad photo is of a bright yellow spider. It was in one of the 5 spots, but by the time I got the camera set it was running down the plant. Honey mesquite flowers, poppies and another plant with tiny little flowers.
The orange dodder is a parasite that engulfs bushes, poppies and pincushions, 2 purple mojave asters with a seed head. cotton top cactus, monkey flower, poppies and yellow tack stem and a bunch of tiny woolly daisies, they also carpet areas.
White flowering bush, tiny pygmy poppies. Palo verde tree yellow blossoms and a big lizard.
Fighting desert tortoises. The little one on the left has his head retracted, the big one on the right was sticking his head inside and biting. The little one pinned the big ones biting head between their shells. John and Judy helped the young neighbor boys paint. The boys decided we will have an art show later this week.
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