Blooms in the Desert
We happened to time our visit so that a ton of the cactus were in bloom. This surprised me, as we'd seen a lot of cactus in bloom during last year's trip, when we'd come to the Four Corners region about a month earlier. We expected to have missed all of this year's blooms ... but then, it occurs to me as I write this that we were about 200 miles farther north this year than last, and a month's difference in the timing of the blooms might make sense.
As an Easterner, I'm going to say this is a prickly pear bloom. It might be something else completely, but to an Easterner all cactuses are prickly pears.
Blooms in the Desert
We happened to time our visit so that a ton of the cactus were in bloom. This surprised me, as we'd seen a lot of cactus in bloom during last year's trip, when we'd come to the Four Corners region about a month earlier. We expected to have missed all of this year's blooms ... but then, it occurs to me as I write this that we were about 200 miles farther north this year than last, and a month's difference in the timing of the blooms might make sense.
As an Easterner, I'm going to say this is a prickly pear bloom. It might be something else completely, but to an Easterner all cactuses are prickly pears.