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| pinicola | profile | all galleries >> 2005 Desert Trip >> Organ Pipe National Monument | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Organ Pipe Cactus, after which the park is named |
 A cardinal visited us in our campsite on the afternoon we arrived |
 Near masses of Brittlebush in bloom the air hummed... |
 Yellow Brittlebush flowers and blue Lupine |
 Zebra-tailed Lizard, holding his toes up off the hot rock |
 Gestures -- meaning what? |
 These flowers are called Fiddlenecks |
 Fiddlenecks in a "bouquet", backlit by the sun |
 Prickly Pear pads are nibbled by intrepid spine-climbing packrats |
 A Cactus Wren sings from the top of an Organ Pipe Cactus |
 Still Life With Mountain |
 This is near the beginning of the Ajo Mountain Drive |
 Who can resist photographing an arch? |
 Near a lookout point on the Ajo Mtn. Drive |
 Dad wades in a sea of wildflowers on the Ajo Mtn. Drive |
 A poppy near a Saguaro cactus |
 Ethel photographs Ocotillo blooms |
 This Cardinal was like another Ocotillo bloom |
 Ocotillo flowers remind me of Halloween "corn candy" |
 Sometimes an Ocotillo stalk will bear two flower heads |
 Wait long enough near a blooming ocotillo... |
 A Nightjar rests between insect-hunting forays |
 Dad shoots the moon |
 The tiny Pincushion Cactuses were coming into bloom |
 Globe Mallow flowers |
 Buds were beginning to open on Buckhorn Cholla |
 You can get drunk on color in the desert... |
 Dad and I went out together on early morning walks |
 This is a Desert Cottontail |
 And here is a younger Cottontail |
 One more sunset as we leave the Sonoran Desert |
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