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1277 Summer Monsoon Flowers
When we think of desert blooms, we think of wild flowers that sprout in the spring after the winter rains. However there is another opportunity to see the desert in bloom. If we get enough rain during the monsoon season such as this year, we get an explosion of color.
This photograph was taken northwest of Phoenix. The sun was setting and another monsoon storm was forming south east of our location. I love the way the plants are picking up the setting sunlight against the contrast of the storm clouds.
In
the recent weeks the valley has seen a summer storm on almost a daily
basis. It may not have rained in your neighborhood, but it rained
somewhere in the valley.
One of the areas that has had the most storms is northwest of Phoenix in
the Wickenburg-Morristown area. We recently took a drive to see if
the desert was greening up with the recent rain. We were not
disappointed! Not only were there large areas of thick tall green
grass, we were surprised to see flowers along Highway 60. There was
quite a variety and in some areas there were masses of them!
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