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Subject: [OM] IMGs: Chris' Cycling Photos 3 March 2014
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 07:52:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     There's very little in the way of wildflowers in the back country this 
season due to the lack of winter rains, so I have been looking around for 
opportunities along my daily cycling routes here in Tempe.  There are a few 
homes in the southern part of town that have defied the "Disney Desert" form of 
landscaping and have instead turned their front yards in to nice showcases of 
more natural desert flora.  One home in particular has a couple of interesting 
species, one being a well formed Strawberry Cactus:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624098065/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624099075/

and the other being a species of succulent that I have heard refered to as 
Desert Candle but which I cannot for the moment properly identify:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624099265/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624099855/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624100085/

     Another home nearby has an interesting cactus with orange flowers that I 
have yet to identify:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624198995/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13624199025/

     Notice the arrangement of rocks in the next to last photo.  The owner has 
gone to the trouble of gsthering rocks that are typical of lower altitude 
Sonoran Desert slopes and arranging them in a way that you would commonly find 
them in a natural environment.  This is a high degree of detail that I rarely 
see, but I would not want to encourage people to go to unless they can find the 
rocks in areas that have been disturbed by road grading.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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