Flowering cactus

This will be a sneak preview of some of the flowering cactus photos I have. I am working on a project made up of desert flowers but well it's not ready and well I don't know when it will be and since you my loving mother and only reader wish to see some cacti with flowers here you go.

I do not know the names of them, but you can see there are many varieties and all with beautiful flowers! Since I am way more impressed with my ability to capture a hummingbird in photos, I have included a few of them also. See if you can spot the hummingbird!

That's all I got for now. Ciao

Snow in the Valley?

Ok maybe not real snow, more like slushy frozen rainy snow, that sounded like hail coming down. It gathered in the stoney plant areas and the garbage can to make it look like snow. It was cold but not freezing cold at least not on the ground, there is no ice on the streets or sidewalks. Just enough to make the desert dorks think they have snow.

 

 

Weekend at the Pointe

Last weekend Pat, William and I went to the Pointe Hilton in Phoenix to swim and relax. You might think really? who goes to a hotel where they live, when the temps are well over 100 and you can barely breathe the air. That would be us and from the crowd a good number of other desert dorks. I am sure those that were not from the area had their own weird reasons for vacationing in Phoenix in July, our only reason was to hang out at the waterpark, relax and enjoy some of those wonderful razzatinis (ok that was my reason). We had dinner at the western BBQ restaurant where you could get that cute little boot full of beer, we hung out at the waterpark where they have multiple pools with a big slide and a lazyriver. After what seemed like an endless week of work, it was a nice way to spend a couple days and getaway.