Category Archives: ocotillo
Macro Monday 2: Thorns
Ocotillo thorns, Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
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Macro Monday 2: Flame
An ocotillo blossom adds some flaming color to the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona.
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Macro Monday 2: Blossoms
Ocotillo blossoms, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona.
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Ruby Tuesday Too: Winter Blossoms
An ocotillo blooms after December rains at Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
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Greening
An ocotillo sports new green leaves after recent monsoons in the Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona.
In the midday heat
a greening ocotillo
offers little shade.
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Short Shadows
Midday shadows are short under an ocotillo, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
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Thorns
Ocotillo thorns, Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Even the new moon
shrinks from the ocotillo
and its deadly thorns.
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Blush
Ocotillo blossoms during the spring 2017 “super bloom” at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Little cactus wren,
the ocotillo blossoms
blush to hear you sing.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Thorns
Fallen ocotillo blossoms lodged in cholla cactus spines, March 2016, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
some thorns, a blossom—
surely one small bird will come
with a morning song
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Ocotillo
Ocotillo, blossoming after winter rains, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
After winter rain,
even the ocotillos
seem to sing for joy.
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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