This busy little bee was visiting all the blooms in the vicinity when I stopped for a quick visit on my way to see a band.
Most of the prickly pear cacti in Spring Creek Basin feature those peachy blooms or pretty yellow flowers, but now and then, there’s a pretty pink-flowering cluster.
The four o’clock flowers are blooming now in Spring Creek Basin’s Chrome’s Point area (western area), and the prickly pear cacti have started opening their flowers. It’s a nice and welcome bit of color in the desert while we wait for monsoons to bring the land to life.
Promising clouds … but they didn’t drop rain on the basin.
The whole big plant, and this *is* a big one.
Very spiky prickly pear (I don’t know the actual kind) with the most delicate, peachy blossoms.
Lots of goodness in there for the bees and other buzzers!
You already know that I’m going to say that these flowers – such delicate beauty surrounded by such fierce thorns! – are one of my favorite signs of spring. 🙂 Even as temps soar into the lower 90s (argh).
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 