Although we have always been interested in flowers that we have found on our trips, this has unquestionably been the best spring bloom we have ever witnessed. We don't know the names of most of them and have given up on trying to find their names, but we hope you will enjoy them as much as we have anyway. And by the way, they have ranged in size from as big as 2 or 3 inches across to as small as a 16th of an inch. The desert is much more alive than it appears to be from a distance.

We have had the good fortune to spend the last few weeks in the Las Cruces, New Mexico area.  It has been a lovely Spring and we have gone for walks almost every day among the flowers in the desert below the Organ Mountains. Here are some pictures from our adventures. We will have another post that is just of flowers up in the next few days.



Dennis, with mask, hiking near Cuates Canyon Road.

Mike on the Fillmore Trail.

Views from Baylor Canyon Road.

Dennis on the Fillmore Trail.

VW Microbus Canyon.

Mike in Cuates Canyon.

Rock wall in Cuates Canyon.

The Rio Grande with the Robledo Mountains in the distance.

Dennis during a backyard haircut.

Chocolate chip cookies - Home made.

And homemade cherry-walnut birthday cake for both of our birthdays.

Sulphur butterfly.

Jack Rabbit on Easter morning.

Greater Earless Lizard.

Cactus Sprouts

Ocotillo and the moon.

Black Chinned Sparrow eating a grasshopper.

Black Chinned Hummingbird.

Pyrrhuloxia

Sunset from our driveway.

Sunrise over the Organ Mountains.

Moonrise over  the Organ Mountains with Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter in alignment.