A desert boondock with beauty all around

The previous post about the weed-wacked wildflowers generated several intense responses, ranging from sad to angry.  The post also contained incorrect information.  For those reasons I deleted it.

The photos in this post show flowers around our present camp.  Enjoy!

P1100451Boondock near Roosevelt Lake, Tonto National Forest, Arizona

Our new camp is in a natural cactus garden!

P1100587Hundreds of cacti, loaded with buds and blooms!

P1100588-001Bridget says, “It’s like living in an arboretum!”

P1100585-001Reggie says, “Yeah!  What Miss B said!”

P1100593RVSue says, “It’s gorgeous here! And most of the buds haven’t opened yet!”

P1100543-001Beauty isn’t always eye-popping-ly obvious.

It’s all around us in subtle forms.

P1100540Sometimes beauty appears where unexpected.

While Bridget, Reggie, and I walk near our camp, we come upon a turkey vulture.

P1100526When thinking about beautiful birds, the words “turkey vulture” don’t usually come to mind!

THE PEOPLE SAY . . . 

“Ugh!  Turkey vultures!  Ugly and, besides that, they eat road kill!”

P1100525THE TURKEY VULTURE SAYS: 

“You kill it and I clean up after you!”

P1100528-001“And you call ME ugly?”

P1100530-001Have a beautiful day, everyone!

rvsue

NOTE:  I’m not showing photos that reveal our location until the time nears for us to move elsewhere.  If you are familiar with the area and recognize our location anyway, please don’t reveal it and please don’t come out here to look at us.  Thank you. — Sue

AND AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG! 

P1100567Sleeping beauties

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