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thomaswaynewolf · 5 months
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gameraboy2 · 1 year
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Arizona Highways, April 1950
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clklocke · 1 year
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michael-massa-micon · 10 months
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Sonoran Family Picture - May 2023 If all the cacti, brush, and trees of the Sonoran desert wanted to take a family picture, it would be this. There are saguaro, organ pipe, and chain fruit cholla cacti. The brush includes creosote bush and brittlebush. In the middle of it all is a palo verde tree. And in the background are the Ajo Mountains. Sometimes nature creates all of the composition of your images for you. MWM
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desert-love · 21 days
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mutant-distraction · 2 months
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. in Arizona from Arizona Highways
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typhlonectes · 6 months
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Saguaro cactus at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, USA
photograph by JC | National Park Service
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nolonelyroads · 1 year
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Sonoran Desert View from DS Site, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ
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heavenlybackside · 1 day
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - Arizona, U.S. . 🇺🇸
#nature #naturephotography #arizona #arizonatrip #arizonahike #arizonaphotography #visitarizona #sunset #sunsetcolors #beautifulsunset #magicalsunset #sunsetphotography
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wandering-jana · 6 months
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, in Southern Arizona.
Explore Organ Pipe:
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boondockerblog · 20 days
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Day 54 (Cabeza Prieta)
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Cabeza Prieta Nat'l Wildlife Preserve is about 60 miles East to West and 30 miles North to South. One long road runs from the Eastern edge to the West (Darby Well Rd, becomes Bates Well Rd, becomes El Camino del Diablo). We've camped and explored about the first 6 miles in the middle of the Eastern edge off Darby Well Rd (dark green triangle on Eastern side is where we're camped).
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We drove slowly on washboard road so we knew we'd only be seeing about another 15 miles from where we're camped. Interestingly after driving about 10 miles all the cactus disappeared leaving only Creosote bushes and a handful of gnarly trees. The Bates Mountains and Growler Mountains continued on all sides.
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Speaking those mountain names, and referring to the map we had so many questions - who names all this that we saw? How are the borders decided? Who drives around to make the map?
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Just after the long stretch of no cactus we came to a gate and sign that showed we were entering Organ Pipe National Monument. We knew from the map that a small NE corner of Organ Pipe butts up against Cabeza Prieta, and in fact the Bates Well Road runs right through that corner. And the vegetation changed almost instantly to lots of Saguaro and other cactus (no Organ Pipe Cactus though - when we went through the official entry to Organ Pipe 2 years ago (see 2022 Day 45) it was primarily the namesake cactus).
Bates Ranch
A few days ago Bill was reading about the Bates family being the last to own a cattle ranch in Cabeza Prieta and the controversy of having them on Organ Pipe Cactus Monument lands. But still we were surprised to come upon a house and some smaller buildings - it was the Bates Ranch!
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Driving back the way we came (red dot in middle of Organ Pipe section of road is where we turned around) was the same by different - because the sun is at the end of the day illuminates things that were in shadow and shadow things that were illuminated. Just look at that
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"hole" in the mountain. Never saw that before even though it's a part of the road I've run before this drive. 2 guesses why - #1 never saw it in the late afternoon so the location of the sun makes shadow (compared to early morning running time), and #2 never saw it from far away (in fact as we got closer to it the hole turned into just mountain ridges completely earsing the sense of a gaping hole)
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thomaswaynewolf · 6 months
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gameraboy2 · 2 years
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Arizona Highways, April 1950
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dcci · 2 years
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Arizona | February 2022
Image shot by me (dcci) with a Yaschia T4
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michael-massa-micon · 10 months
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Palo and Saguaro - May 2023 Saguaro are often found growing up out of palo verde trees or other desert plants. That is because the very young cacti cannot stand the full desert sun. Thus, if they don’t begin life in the shade of something, they don’t survive. Luckily for them, the desert bats like the fruit of the Saguaro and the bats also like to roost in low hanging desert trees. Thus when the seeds pass through the bats, they are deposited in the proper shady area beneath a tree. Often, as the saguaro grows, its roots crowd out its “nurse tree” and that tree dies from lack of moisture. In this case, there is apparently enough ground for the saguaro and the palo verde to co-exist and create a rather striking image. MWM
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desert-love · 6 months
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21 arms on this saguaro. Located in Organ Pipe Cactus Monument.
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