We shipped Cori's car and chose to make the drive to Texas. We moved over the kids' spring break and tried to make it up to them by planning a few stops along the way. The first two were not very far from Phoenix. They are places we had been curious to visit and just never got around to. First stop was Saguaro National Park. We purchased a NP Passport for Jeffers and he got his first stamp.
(I'm on instagram again - hence the filters and borders. Because, for some reason my unfiltered pictures just don't seem to belong on Instagram...)
Late February and early March are the lovely spring months in the Arizona dessert. All the lady slippers were in bloom. For probably about 3/4 of the year, these plants just look like dead, thorny branches sticking out of the earth. But when they are blooming they are so pretty!
We spent a little time in the visitor center and then drove a dirt trail loop to see all the cacti. The video we watched in the center talked about the saguaro cactus' place in the dessert ecosystem and then focussed primarily on how Native American's regard the saguaro. The Hohokam called them the 'people of the mountain'. After driving amongst them for a while, Cori and I commented on how it felt like driving through a crowd. Old people, young people, families of people all doing different things. Ancient plants that have been thriving in the dessert for centuries. It was quiet and beautiful.
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Hope thing are going well in Texas! We were sad we didn't get a chance to say good-bye. Keep in touch. I'm in Instagram and would love to follow you. My user name is nattyshan.
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