Amazing time of year to visit the park as so many flowers were in full bloom.

Death Valley

Barrel Cactus in Bloom

Construction camp on the Buckhorn branch of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad grade. Claret cup cactus in bloom in the ruin of another stone building.

A torch cactus in bloom at the Springs Preserve.

Photo by Roger Hilleboe, aka #Iconoclast00

Cholla cactus in bloom (buckhorn variety I think)

Prickly Pear cactus in bloom in Saguaro State Park in Tuscon, Arizona.

Christmas Cactus blooming in March

Prickly Pear cactus in bloom

Chollo cactus in bloom

taken with a Panasonic DMC Lumix LZ8 point and shoot .. post processed

Barrel Cactus in bloom + solitary bee

Organ pipe cactus, in bloom. Sedona house.

Starfish cactus in bloom.

Cactus in bloom

Enjoying Cactus in Bloom

Blooming Cactus

View towards the Pacific from Gibraltar road

We decided to hike to Swamp Bay. This was an interesting hike as you go through woodlands, rainforest, to get to the beach. We decided on our way back to hike out a different way that would take us up the river bed but that didn't work out as it was swamp. I had to come all the way to Australia to take pictures of cactus!

Mmmm. Squiggly.

Arizona

A Prickly Pear Cactus in bloom. Palmer Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Neighbors yard, Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.