We're 8 miles up a dirt road, Isabelle says "What's That?" - We stopped - fantastic!

The entire hillside, every flat rock has petroglyphs on it.

This one is modern

Big Horn Sheep?

Near the Petroglyph site - Cholla

Echinocereus

Ocotillo

Cholla

Cholla

Opuntia basilaris

Ferocactus cylindraceus

Carmen getting down the hill

A sure sign of the drought that is affecting Southern California - Big old Ocotillos and some Echinocereus - dead

Chollas

Fero

Fero

Shy Fero

Fantastic plants

Hillside of Ocotillos

Nice, young echinocereus

Fero

More Opuntia basilaris

Jojoba bush

One stem didn't make it

Young Ocotillo (not many this size)

Another site, nearby

Great pair growing on a rock wall

C. bigelovii?

Wild Cucumber - AKA 'Manroot' do to the size of the tuber underground - to 100 lbs.

Near Quartzsite, under a wild old Saguaro for lunch. See Quartzsite Pics for these plants three years ago

Part of the bunch

Finally, Our destination

I'm really a plant guy