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Fallen cottonwood leaf lands on a prickly pear cactus and is pierced by the spine
Arizona in 2003, from old camera film.
Lemon butterfly enjoys a cactus flower in the desert
prickly pear cactus flower with bee
A close-up black-and-white view of a small cactus growing alongside a Yucca glauca plant
It a small fast-growing waxy-looking shrub that grows next to creeks. It fruits prolifically the year after fire or good rains. Its fruit have a pungent smell, and the plant can be smelled from some distance away when the fruit are ripe.
The historic Bell Trail was built in the rugged canyon of Wet Beaver Creek in 1932. Wet Beaver Creek is in Yavapai County near Camp Verde, Arizona, USA. Rancher Charles Bell needed the trail to move his cattle up and down the Mogollon Rim. Today, the Bell Trail is used mainly for recreational purposes. White Mesa and Casner Butte are two of the mountains visible from the Bell Trail.
Prickly pear cactus and its edible red fruit in the high desert of Northern New Mexico
Yucca and ground cover along the trail through the Chisos mountains, in Big Bend national park.
Layered view of west mesa, volcanoes, and Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In early spring the cactus blooms add to the beauty of the desert.
Wide landscape shot of Mt. Baldy, C.A.
A succulent plant in the summer
Pink \
Tall stalks of flowering yucca plants in front of the famous vortex of Bell Rock in Sedona Arizona.
Four varieties of cactus clump together in Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona
Cane cholla cactus with foraging ants in the Chiricahua mountains.
Cactus pictured in Big Bend National Park
Cactus in the desert in bloom in Arizona
Three yucca plants in a grassy area
The Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a type of squirrel found in the mountainous areas of western North America. Because of its stripes and cheek pouches the Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel is often thought of as a chipmunk. It is considerably larger than the chipmunk and lacks facial stripes. This Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel was photographed while feeding in a meadow of lupine near the Paradise River in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, USA.
Scenic hillside with soil and vegetation in sunlight, Big Bend National Park
The Sandia Mountains, are a mountain range located in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, immediately to the east of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico
cactus plant in the desert
Trail leads to a view of the Fort Bowie national historic site. Through the arid landscape of the Chiricahua mountains of southeast Arizona.
Near Langtry, Texas, USA
Wildflowers growing in the desert of Arizona
Flower plant in the desert, National Park Llanos De Challe, Atacama, Chile, Sout America
In the vast desert area of New Mexico in the White Sands National Park area, blooming soap weed yuccas are a wonderful sight. The area is in the Tularosa basin area with San Andres Mountains to the West and Sacramento Mountains to the East. Drifts in the the dunes can be 10' to 60' high. The dunes are a magical and unusual place in the Southwest. The wind-created ripples create a stunning visual of shadows of light and dark. As day light shifts into evening there is a stillness and a pastel glow of light on the sand and yuccas.
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