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Plants and
Animals
This page contains pictures of
plants and animals, collected from all of my hikes. Enjoy!
Click on any picture to
enlarge.
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A many headed
barrel cactus, in full bloom. |
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A many headed barrel cactus, in full bloom, growing out of a rock. |
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An ocotilla
plant, in full bloom. These plants look completely dead when there is
no water, and then spring back to life right after a rain. |
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This poor buck
didn't make it... |
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This is a pin
cushion cactus, in full bloom. |
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The tall plant
is an agave (also called a century plant). This plant does not produce
a single seed for the first 25 years of its life. Then, in the last
year of its life, it sends up the tall stalk that you see in this
photo. The stalk blooms, goes to seed, and then the whole plant dies. |
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A prickly pear
cactus, in full bloom. |
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This is the
web of a wolf spider. Neat, huh? |
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Bunny rabbit! |
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What's up doc? |
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This prickly
pear cactus has plenty of fruit. It actually tastes quite good. People
make jam out of it -- I just eat them raw. |
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This sign is
right outside a "gusher". See the next two pictures. |
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Here is a
"gusher". It is a rain collection device that the park service built in
the 1950s for wildlife (they don't build these anymore). Just a big
concrete slab (in the middle of nowhere), with a collection pool at one
end. |
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Yum. Want a
drink? |
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Another pin
cushion cactus, in bloom. |
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This is a
stick bug. |