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The Tree in the Stone

A pattern in the slate resembles a large tree on a rainy winter's morning on the Slate Trail in Cave Creek Regional Park in Cave Creek, Aizona in December 2019. Original: _DSC6152.arw

Natural artwork in the stone on a rainy winter’s morning on the Slate Trail at Cave Creek.

Published August 10, 2020
Categorized as Scenic Tagged Arizona, Cave Creek, Cave Creek Regional Park, desert, rocks, slate, Slate Trail, Sonoran Desert

Big Needles

A view of strawberry hedgehog cactus in the rain growing in slate on the Quartz Trail in Cave Creek Regional Park in Cave Creek, Arizona in December 2019. Original: _DSC6456.arw

My award for the cutest member of the desert that will still stab you six ways from Sunday goes to the diminutive hedgehog cactus with its almost comically long needles. I found this little clump in the slate at Cave Creek on a rainy winter’s day. Rain, I remember rain. It was wet I think.

An overhead view of strawberry hedgehog cactus in the rain growing in slate on the Quartz Trail in Cave Creek Regional Park in Cave Creek, Arizona in December 2019. Original: _DSC6441.arw

Published August 8, 2020
Categorized as Plants Tagged Arizona, cactus, Cave Creek, Cave Creek Regional Park, desert, Quartz Trail, rain, rocks, slate, Sonoran Desert, strawberry hedgehog

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