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Spring in Joshua Tree, and the teddy bear cholla are fresh and green.

We walked slowly round the nature trail in the largest cholla patch, stepping carefully over the shed arm sections that would someday be the tall spiky cacti that loomed over the path. The bright sun reflected off the sterile fruit and the yellow-white spines. The purple spines of tall desert flowers nodded in the breeze, zigzagging in and out the reaching arms of the cholla.

It was a beautiful day in the desert.







Shallow depth of field seems to work well for this sort of photograph...

The last few days have been very busy, covering DEMO09 from the insides of a Palm Springs hotel. Today, then, was time to get into the outside world.

And where better on a beautiful spring day than Joshua Tree?

The desert is blooming right now, all the bright colours of the ephemeral desert flowers: yellow, pink, blue, purple, red, orange. We stopped to walk around one of the nature trails in the park, and that's where I saw this little chap:





I'm not sure which of the two species of Horned Lizard that are found in the Park it is (though based on the geography I suspect there are reasonable odds that it is the rarer of the two, the San Diego Horned Lizard).