This image (click to enlarge) is of the top of a saguaro 400 feet down the road from our little house in the desert. This particular cactus doesn’t have any “arms” like a lot of them do, but it has an abundance of flower buds on its crown and the one lovely open flower. There will be many more, as you can see.
We will be posting lots of flower pictures as the spring/summer flowering season progresses. We love our desert and the seasonal delights it provides.
Most people who haven’t lived there or spent time there tend to think of the desert as “dead”.
it’s far from “dead”, as you two have found out!
I was always amazed at how tenacious live can be, even in climates that would kill a human.
When we were in Hawaii last year, we saw numerous plants growing in what appeared to be solid lava fields.
It just take one little crack, and some water, and life will bloom.
Same at Sunset Crater, there were cactus with flowers growing right outta the lava, funny.
Oh and I agree it is tenacious.