It's spring!

[Kali]

[Bertha Venation]

1. Are these animals, is this land, yours?

[Kali]

2. yes

(well, it is a family operation, not all mine per se)

[RainDog]

3. the western landscape is so strange to me.

beautiful but totally foreign.

I've always lived in deciduous forested areas - except when I lived in Miami...which is not at all like the west.

is that a yucca plant in the middle?

[Kali]

6. believe it or not

this is pretty deciduous too, all that sticky looking brush will leaf out in about another 10 days
yes that is a yucca

I was like a dumb tourist when I saw the area around Iowa/Illinois/Missouri for the first time. Too damn green!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Kali!

Yes, it certainly is!

Looks hot in that pic, though...

:hi:

[Kali]

8. not hot yet

mid 70's today, but it was windy - bleh
that's why I was out driving around with the camera instead of doing any real work:rofl:


:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. How can I tell? no buds on the trees. no blooms anywhere.

I mean it is beautiful but how is it Spring?

my yard


last Spring

[Kali]

10. pretty!

well in my picture, besides the new babies, if you look really, REALLY hard, you can see there is about an inch of green in the little tufts of grass. :rofl:

And in about 10 days all that stick looking brush will have the most beautiful, feathery, light green leaves bursting out. And since we got actual rain this winter (over 5 inches!) the bushes and trees will be flowering like crazy. From a couple years ago:















oh, and this is winter:

:D

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. I think she can tell it's Spring...

.
...because of all the little cowlets on her ranch (cowlets is a technical
term... but I think you can figure it out).
.
Or, as the hipster doofus rancher might say, "S'up, my little dawgies?"
.
On my first visit here (1981, I think), it took me about 3 days to see more
than just this brownish mass when I looked at the desert.
.
Quickly and, you know... progressively, my appreciation for the beauty in
this land deepened immensely to the point where now, along with northern
Michigan river country and southern Germany mountain country, the Sonoran
desert is among my three favorite places on Earth.
.
Although, maybe my second day here, MiddleFingerMomDad took me on a driving
tour of a brand new upscale subdivision WAY out in the desert. When we were
through, he asked me what I thought.
.
Because their yards looked pretty much like the above picture, and because
of my frame of reference, I told him I thought it would be fantastic "once
they get their lawns put in".
.
He laughed and told me that it may have cost them $10-15,000 to get their
"lawns" to look like natural desert again.
.
I was young and stupid.
.
And drunk.
.
And I needed the money.
.
No, wait... that's another story.
.

[Haole Girl]

9. Aww

So cute!

:loveya: