February 19-20, 2019: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (California)

Montezuma Valley Road

snow on Hot Springs Mountain
Borrego Valley & Salton Sea
Culp Valley
bristly fiddleneck
Gander's cholla
Indianhead Mountain
cryptantha
ocotillo

Coyote Canyon Road

desert sand-verbena, budding
desert lily
desert sand-verbena
desert lily, budding
California spectacle-pod
desert sunflowers
desert sand-verbena
dune evening primrose & sand-verbena
desert sunflowers
desert dandelion
showy/snowy sunflower
creosote bush
Arizona lupine
Spanish needle
desert sunflowers
painted lady butterfly on desert sunflowers
Arizona lupine
sand-verbena & desert sunflowers
Emory's rock-daisy
distant phacelia
whispering bells
notch-leaved phacelia
narrow-leaf cryptantha
California sun-cup
Coyote Mountain and a wet wash
laxflower (Colorado desert marigold)
dune evening primrose & desert sunflowers
mud & mountains
coyote tracks
brown-eyed primrose

Rattlesnake Canyon

Clark Valley & Toro Peak
desert sand-verbena
silver cholla
desert sand-verbena
showy/snowy sunflower
desert sand-verbena
Santa Rosa Mountains
Arizona lupine
ocotillo flowers
brittlebush
ocotillo
Thomas' buckwheat
pygmy poppy
Booth's sun-cup (woody bottle-washer)
California barrel cactus
diamond cholla
ghost flower
California barrel cactus, budding
notch-leaved phacelia
beaver-tail prickly-pear cactus
ghost flower
Parish's poppy
notch-leaved phacelia
desert lavender
brittlebush
common fish-hook cactus
wishbone bush (four o'clock), budding
cryptantha & poppies
Arizona lupine & Parish's poppy
mouth of Rattlesnake Canyon
pebble pincushion
white tack-stem
Arizona lupine
California barrel cactus close-up
Booth's sun-cup (woody bottle-washer)
Emory's rock-daisy
Jones' linanthus
Santa Rosa Mountains after sunset
brown-eyed primrose after sunset
ocotillo in the moonlight
ocotillo in the moonlight
lupine in moonlight
Coyote Mountain in the moonlight

The Slot & Borrego Badlands

Bishop's lotus
California sun-cup
teddy-bear cholla
desert chicory
little-flowered heliotrope phacelia
desert holly (male flowers)
mudstone canyon
mudstone slot canyon
mudstone slot canyon
mudstone canyon
tilted rock layers
ravens
desert pussypaws leaves
mudstone canyons
Gander's cholla

Ocotillo Wells SVRA

desert chicory
yellow brown-eyed primrose
indigo bush (Schott's dalea)
desert five-spot, budding
pygmy poppy
indigo bush (Schott's dalea)
desert dandelion
Arizona lupine & cryptantha
desert pincushion
desert chicory
desert sunflowers
desert sand-verbena
ground beetle
onyxflower (frost mat)
red admiral caterpillar
Texas filaree
white-lined sphinx moth caterpillar
brown-eyed primrose & sand-verbena
broad-leaf gilia
distant phacelia
desert chicory
desert five-spot (budding) & sand-verbena
Arizona lupine
desert lily
master blister beetles
Emory's rock-daisy
ghost flower
yellow nightshade ground-cherry
specter phacelia
desert tobacco
brittlebush, budding
yellow nightshade ground-cherry
Mojave desert stars
Mojave desert stars, budding
desert sunflowers
dune evening primrose, brown-eyed primrose, & sand-verbena
Borrego milk-vetch
desert plantain & Borrego milk-vetch
desert sunflowers
desert sunflowers
desert sunflowers
desert sunflowers
laxflower (Colorado desert marigold)
line-leaf white-puff
desert plantain
desert wildflowers
desert wildflowers
notch-leaved phacelia
desert wildflowers
Squaw Peak & desert wildflowers

Mountain Palm Springs

ocotillo & rain clouds
strawberry hedgehog cactus
desert agave
snow on Granite Mountain
Vallecito Valley & Sawtooth Mountains
dainty desert hide-seed
California fan palms
Gander's cholla & brown-eyed primrose
Bigelow's monkeyflower
desert holly (female flowers)
California fagonbush
California fan palms
Booth's sun-cup (woody bottle-washer)
California fan palms
whispering bells
desert holly (male flowers)
California mustard
notch-leaved phacelia & whispering bells
cactus wren nest in a cholla
Mojave groundsel
rainbow
yellow comet (hydra blazing-star)
California barrel cactus flowers
desert mistletoe berries
pygmy stonecrop
Carrizo Valley
Southwest Grove
California fan palms
California fan palms & turkey vultures
Arizona lupine
hairy blazing-star, budding
Parish's poppy
clouds over the Carrizo Valley
California barrel cactus flowers
California ephedra
ghost flowers
Mojave desert stars
sunset clouds
sunset clouds

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