Over the years a few places have emerged as re-usables like when when from here to there. As unusual as it is for me to camp in the same spot, I'll often take time to explore the area further. Don't you?
This time, just fifteen minutes from the previous night's camp, I wandered into an area rife with diversity: granite outcrops, plants untold, birds, including a red-tail hawk and, after sunset, an owl.
Although this is SO "typical, boring-blog photo," I took it to remind me that this is cat-claw country, a cousin of the African "wait-a-bit." AND, there are several kinds of yucca. In the right foreground you can see a Multi-stalk and in the left middle-ground a Giraffe-esque Yucca. And there, center-stage, trying not to look too proud, is a Scrub Oak. There're some cool stacked rocks out there too.
HOLES!!
Interesting growth on either side of a crack
Closeup of interesting growth on either....
Fossil Labia
You just never know what's around the next bend.
I like this post! these kinds are my favorite. many things; Can you give me a close-up of your cat-claw or are you saying the scrub oak looks like cat-claw? haha you know me I always keen to know the vegetation. And I also want to say, yes I too always look at labia in nature, to me there are many, more then pooperds or penises. Balls? I actually do not look for balls much.
ReplyDeleteNo, I didn't mean to say the Scrub Oak looks like cat-claw, just that there's a lot of cat-claw in that area.
DeleteI'll try and get a close-up of cat-claw. I'm north of Tucson now and that was east of Tucson. I'm not sure if there's cat-claw around here.
And Pooperds! Rare as hens' teeth!
DeleteI'm so bad at seeing details around me. More of a big picture guy, I guess.
ReplyDeleteSo, could you reframe that as...
Delete"I'm really good at seeing the big picture; details, schmetails, who needs 'em?"