April 23 – For the past several years we have not returned to Long Island until very late in the spring and I do miss the spring flowers in the northeast. Passed these flowers on my run today (still in Chula Vista / San Diego) and they’d made me think of my garden at home.
April 22 Earth Day – These roses smelled as good as they look. Very rare to find roses that smell like roses today.
April 15 – Desert cactus flowers appear anytime from April to June. I captured these flowers at an RV park in Tucson. Maybe because it has been such a dry year, but we have seen very few flowering cacti in the desert.
April 12 – Panch Villa State Park is located in Columbus, New Mexico. The park is named after Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit who came over the border and raided the town in 1916. Carefully cultivated with desert plantS, it is the most beautiful desert campground we have stayed at. Unfortunately, during this stay the weather and light did not cooperate and the photo were flat. The Yucca in the photo is a different variety than pictured in earlier photos.
April 10 – Driving west from Del Rio, Texas, we drove across highest bridge in Texas, spanning the Pecos River. Once across the Pecos we were officially in the Wild West of legend. Yucca plants bloom everywhere we go. We spent the night in the high desert town of Marathon, Texas and I was able to get up close and personal. There are so many varieties of Yucca that I cannot be sure which one this is, but the leaves are like daggers — you…Continue Reading “Rivers and Blooms …”
April 5 — For the last two days we keep seeing people on the side of the road taking picture of something. This afternoon we found out what, and joined their ranks. Everywhere we look we see fields of Bluebonnets, the Texas state flower that blooms in the late spring – and only in parts of Texas.
iPhone image edited on the iPad
The flowers by us in central Florida are beautiful, but drive 200 miles south and a different, subtropical world opens up. iPhone image edited on the iPad
