Once you get used to the brown, beige shades of everything, you can look for the unusual. Cacti are really very different. There is a huge variety in the neighborhood.
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This is a multi, multi headed Barrel cactus!!!!
Twins!!
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This neighborhood was built to preserve the mature saguaro cacti. They don't grow "arms" until they are over 100 years old.
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| I wonder who planted these Californian Fan?? Palms. It is a lovely drive with these mature trees on either side. |
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Then there is the Rock Art decorated path. Many of these vignettes have Southwest Indian themes which I don't understand.
The hiking path is to the left. The Rock Art borders a "wash" which is dry now, but handles fast moving rain water in the monsoon season. ( Yes, AZ does gets torrents of rain but the sandy soil does not soak it up. So flood control pathways have to be established. Several units in this neighborhood were damaged in a severe overflow many years ago. They have planned for rain runoff in many ways)
Here are just a few. I skipped the frog with a crown and many rock displays that may have special meaning but none that I could understand.
This is the most elaborate Indian setting
Even El Burro must have a siesta in the shade of a prickly pear cactus( cactus slightly damaged from frost.)
There are several of these twig structures. I'll have to ask what they mean.
Thank Goodness there is a Great horned Owl here. (Those of you who traveled with us the last 2 years, know that I love Great Horned Owls mostly because there was a stately pair who lived in Oro Valley, Vistoso where we stayed for the 2 previous years. I named them Horacio and Olivia. The guy iusn't real, but it is nice to see him represented in the Rock Art Walkway)
Must have a St Francis.
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This neighborhood was built to preserve the mature saquaro cacti. They don't grow "arms" until they are over 100 years old.
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I wonder who planted these Californian Fan?? Palms. It is a lovely drive with these mature trees on either side.
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