Some Moab Flora, May 2015

I'm back in Western Washington State now.  I'll soon be doing some blog posts to debrief my four months of being a snowbird, including some product reviews as well as an analysis of the experience itself.

Right now, tho', I have a few more photos of wild flowers and other Moab flora to share.

My hope was, before I needed to return to Washington, that I'd see the prickly pear cactus in bloom. And they did bloom, the day before I left.  So, I begin with a few of those pics ...

Pink prickly pear bloom.  5/25/15 

Yellow prickly pear bloom, the most common color near us.  5/25/15 

Peach prickly pear bloom, with a variegated yellow/pink in background.
I saw very few of these.  5/25/15 

The black knobbly patches in this photo is crytobiotic soil crust.
One of the oldest known lifeforms.   5/15/15 

Here is a closer look at the cryptobiotic soil crust.  It's fragile.
I took care not to step on it.  5/15/15 

A close up of some clumps of cryptobiotic soil crust and lichen. 5/15/15 

Lupine grew near to the cryptobiotic soil pictured above.  5/15/15  

This plant grew near to our camp and was in continuous bloom
throughout our stay in May.  5/19/15 

Junipers dotted the landscape.  We had young ones near our camp, but
across the way this Grandpa Juniper provided a favorite perch for the
local raven couple.   5/25/15 

During the last days of our stay in Moab, these sweet white flowers
came into bloom.  5/26/15 

Moab: fantastic views at the macro level, as well as close-up.