Intersection Logs

Night-blooming cactus Early morning on the UA campus, June 2009

I do love these fragile, flamboyant flowers, though I have to get up uncomfortably early to see them. Yesterday's expedition was a good one; six flowers on the big plant on the chaplaincy corner and a couple in the grove in the shade of Centennial Hall. It was cloudier than usual, which gave me softer light to work with but rather took away the point of being up that early in the summer -- it was no hotter at lunchtime than it was at 7am, really.

Compass Barrel cactus, UA campus, June 2009

Prickly pear, at the far end of the flowering season. The campus is emptying out, and there won't be much flowering for a while; the saguaros don't seem very enthusiastic about it this year.

(Oh, and it turns out last week's flower was desert willow after all; it comes in both light and dark purple colorways, while ironwood is a different tree with light purple flowers.)

The claret cup cactus is blooming!

Also: note on putting a header image in Transmogrified, here.

That shocking-pink beavertail on the corner.

(My other beavertail, the one near the grocery store, seems to have disappeared sometime during the year. Also, I should have taken my camera when I went out to buy a lamp today; there was a magnificent yellow-and-red prickly pear in the parking lot there.)

Camera-shy things, these little mallows, pink and orange and red. They sway around, and the autofocus misses them most of the time, so I'm modestly happy with this one.

Bee on flower UA campus, February 2009

Flowering shrub UA campus, January 2009

UA campus, January 2009