Vacation pictures:
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The VLA (Very Large Array), New Mexico.
Interesting features in the southern Rockies and deserts.
Anticlines, colored strata and criss-crossing lineaments. The
Colorado River, with Parker Dam and Lake Havasu, is the border
between Arizona and California.
My parent's garden in California. Tradescantia
(spiderwort), Cymbidium orchids, and fruit trees.
Desert botany. Cacti, Echinocereus
engelmannii, Opuntia basilarus, O. bigelovii, Opuntia
species
(hedgehog cactus, beavertail cactus jumping cholla, and cholla
species respectively).
Second row; Yucca schidegera, Fouqueria splendens, Encelia
farinosa
(Mojave yucca, ocotillo, and brittle bush respectively).
Petroglyphs and an oasis near the lower Colorado
River. Lizard is Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus.
Springs with native palms near Palm Springs, also small native
ferns and succulents. Cloak fern, Cheilanthes parryi and
Live-forever, Dudleya saxosa.
A cultivated cactus garden in Palm Springs
Southern California scenes and botany. Three
pics of chalk lettuce, Dudleya pulverulenta, also a
blue-eyed grass, and heron bill, Erodium texanum.
The trip back, more air photos; Long Beach Harbor, Newport
Harbor, an oilfield in Texas, and the Atlanta Airport.