Lush Desert

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument:
Although 'lush desert' sounds like an oxymoron, it is the perfect description of this portion of the Sonoran Desert. As a designated Biosphere Reserve, it showcases one of the Earth's major ecosystems in its unspoiled and ideal wilderness conditions (which means it doesn't get any more pristine than this.)! And amazingly, we have the place nearly to ourselves. We spent the day hiking and exploring and saw nary another soul.

Bo with the signature plant of the park - Organ Pipe Cactus

Breakfast al fresco!
Bird of the Day has be changed to show the correct quail,the Gambel's Quail, which is found here in Arizona.