As I was leaving the water-catchment work site the other day, I admired the spectacular bloom of *color* alongside the road and smiled to myself, thinking, WOW, that’s some nice color in our otherwise very brown world right now. … Then I hit the brakes, shifted into reverse and went back to take some pix. Because brightness deserves to be shared. 🙂
Odd note maybe only of interest to photographers: The blooms were in reality more purplish-red than the reddish-red depicted in the photo (I took multiple images to be sure I had stamens and bees and petals and pollen sharp, at least in places). But they’re still very bright and beautiful!
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Very pretty!
It’s hard to convey the beauty of the blooms with the prickly of the cactus! 😉
I am glad you backed up to catch these beauties, both the color and the bees! Must mean there is honey there somewhere in the wild word!
And pollen for more flowers! I wonder where that honey is? 🙂
So beautiful
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Such a bright spot ! Glad you stopped and soaked it in 🌺
Me, too. 🙂
Beautiful. I love those contractors.
🙂 Me, too.