ARIZONA DESERT BEAUTIES

 As we travel this country of ours, we have learned to appreciate different forms of beauty beyond our green Oregon.  The Arizona desert gives us a few plants to admire.  Due to our lack of skill in capturing in photos the intensiveness of our discoveries, these pictures do not begin to capture the "Ohhh!!" and "Ahhh!!" that we express as we see these.  But here are a few of our recent favorites.
A purple cactus!!

 A snakebush???

 New babies bustin' out all over!!

 The standard!!

 "DO NOT TOUCH!!!"