The hummingbirds are great. One took particular interest in me because I was wearing a red shirt. It was close enough that it fanned my face with its wings. 

A turtle soaking up the sun at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 

Maybe a cristate saguaro, maybe just all the arms growing out of the top...

This one is at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson. 

Praying Hands

Closer view of the formation called the Praying Hands. 

The north end of Superstition Mountain

Superstition Mountain is just to the east of Apache Junction, AZ.

The shot is from about a half-mile short of the base of the mountain. On the far left side is a small Teddy Bear cholla next to a Palo Verde tree. The green bushes are mostly Creosote and the things that look like poles are actually juvenile saguaros (meaning that they’re something less than about 50 or 60 years old). The path in the foreground goes up to the rocks that are right at the edge of the shadow line.

It was 65 degrees when we started out, so a nice morning to be out and about.