Joshua Tree National Park offers one extraordinary landscape after another. This morning, we drove south through the park and stopped for a walk in the Cholla Cactus Garden, where thousands of cholla cactuses grow in a vivid desert setting. Their spines are sharp and menacing, as you are warned by signs at the entrance to the trails. We were amused by a quote on the entrance sign:
"If the plant bears any helpful or even innocent part in the scheme of things on this planet, I should be glad to hear of it." -- from California Desert Trails, by J. Smeaton Chase, 1919
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That cactus flower is so lovely -- that bright spot of color!
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