A peaceful moment for us today

[bronxiteforever]

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man


The Sonoran Desert, Arizona, stretches out over nearly 100,000 square miles.
The desert is the hottest in North America but due to the high levels of rainfall compared to other deserts it manages to maintain plant life.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty Bronxite!

✌️

[surfered]

2. Beautiful photo. Thank you 🙏

[True Dough]

3. I must say, for a positive poster

this is the most prickly you've been!

[bronxiteforever]

6. Pretty funny! 😄

[Scrivener7]

4. Thank you bronxite! This is a far cry from Tremont Ave and the Grand Concourse!

Have a great day.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Haha! Love this. It sure is.

[2naSalit]

7. Beautiful!

It's been years since I've been to that desert but I can still smell the fresh morning air and the sweet scent of cactus blooms.

The most delicate and beautiful cactus, to me, is the ocotillo.

[brer cat]

8. Thank you, bronxite.

[Karadeniz]

9. Omg...amazing !!!!

[Clouds Passing]

10. Pretty to look at but don't hug one 🤪

[NNadir]

11. That is a magnificent photo. I still recall the first time I saw the saguaro as a young man. I got out of the car...

...and just stared, and yes, the sun was rising.

Thanks for the memory.