Our camp is on a bluff overlooking a large flood plain of palo verde and mesquite.
View below our campsite near Roosevelt, Arizona
Our first dawn I hurry outside to greet the day.
Standing near the edge of the bluff I silently watch as the first rays of sunlight creep across the treetops.
I have to voice my awe.
“Wow!”
Then a funny, delightful thing happens!
A bird far to the left, out of frame in the photo above, maybe a quarter of a mile away, calls out, “Wow!” That is followed by the same kind of bird, far to the right, responding,”Wow!”
Then another and another, from different places below me!
A series of “wows!” rises up to our site on the bluff.
I call back with my own “Wow!” Boy, this is going to be a great camp!
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Several days have passed since that first dawn.
If you looked at the previous post or other blogs, you know the desert is blooming like crazy. Every day more blossoms appear. Please bear with me for posting more flower photos.
Although I write this blog to entertain and inform, I also write it as a record for myself. I may never come this way again and I want to include the flowers in this journal of our travels.
In this photo you can see how the cactus fruit forms.
I’ve wanted to see spring in the desert for a long time.
In previous springs, the warming of the desert had us fleeing northward like a lot of RVers do. I did not want to encounter snakes awakening from their winter sleep.
After four winters and early springs in the desert, during which we’ve never encountered a rattlesnake, I’ve become more daring.
I’m very careful, but I’m not letting my snake phobia hold me back!
Take a look at the buds on this cactus . . . . exquisite!
I’m very glad we lingered in southeastern Arizona.
Seeing the profusion of blooms this spring is a highlight of our full-time vagabonding!
And people say the desert is dull . . . .
Here’s a guy who doesn’t think so!
“Get away from that Reggie. You’ll be stuck by the cholla if you keep poking around over there.”
One night a big storm rolls into our camp!
How exciting! Wind, rain, thunder, lightning, even hail!
The cactus buds and blooms receive a pelting from the storm.
Most of them recover. Many of the photos in this post were taken after the storm.
I hope you enjoy these flower photos. It’s fun for me to take them and share them. Well, most of the time.
Not when I’m pulling cactus spines out of my knee!
More action, less flowers, in the next post — I promise!
rvsue
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