Today's image brings together a shot of the Las Vegas airport taken from our hotel room window with photo of a cactus about to bloom. Look closely and you will see a jet heading up into the sky at the upper left hand corner of the photo.
Ocotillos blossom way up at the top of long, spiney stems that have dime sized leaves on them. Like most desert plants, the ocotillo defends itself with its prickers.
With the beauty of the desert right now -- the palo verdes are yellow green, the ocotillos are red orange, the prickly pears dance in yellow -- it is hard to see why humankind is drawn the the artificiality of a place like Las Vegas with its hard concrete surfaces and harsh lights. For me, spring calls in the form of this ocotillo that is about to unfold its botanical colors to the sky.
Copyright 2011
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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