Spring in the Sonoran Desert
Apr 22, 2019 16:09:08 #
For those of you not familiar with the Sonoran Desert, it extends from the tip of the Baja Peninsula on the southern side to Interstate 40 in northern Arizona with an eastern boundary of AZ route 191 and a western boundary of Borrego Springs, California. This put my hometown of Tucson in the northern part of it and for those of you that picture a desert as nothing but sand dunes, I am including a few images to disabuse you of this notion. Spring in the Sonoran Desert - especially after a moist winter is breathtakingly beautiful. We have a native bush called Brittlebush that explodes with yellow blooms followed by another native, the Palo Verde tree that even outshines the Brittlebush. My house is in northwest Tucson in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains (8700 feet above sea level) and has more open space around it than the city but both are endowed with color this Spring. Here are a few pictures to illustrate this.
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