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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
#arizona#organ pipe cactus national monument#ajo mountains#saguaro#organ pipe cactus#chain fruit cholla#creosote bush#brittlebush#palo verde tree
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Where The Heart Is (2) (3) (4) by photocles
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(1) At the northwest end of Wupatki National Monument first thing in the morning. The weather gods afforded me a few small clouds for depth in an otherwise brilliant blue sky.
(2) A chain-fruit cholla and loads of its closest friends near Saguaro Lake, Tonto National Forest, Arizona.
(3) Just east of Scottsdale, Arizona.
(4) Long out-of-use shells of buildings in Superior, Arizona.
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Are there any plants that are associated with the Wild West aside from cacti and tumbleweeds? I'm thinking of some shatterspace concepts for my OCs and one of them is cowboy themed, and I want to name that dimension's variant of one of my OCs after a plant of some kind since he's a rancher. I do have an idea for a potential name that I like, but I want to see if I can come up with a better one
Yeah yeah ofc!!! The desert and other dry lands often get treated as if they’re a barren wasteland but there’s so much life that grows around everywhere. Some large plants are Chain Fruit Chollas (which you can use as like the main fruit that people there consume too!!), Acacia trees, Mesquite trees, and century plants!!!
Some flowers are: Desert lilies and marigolds and chicories, brittlebushes, and bluedicks <3 bc funny name
#ty answers stuff#I only did desert stuff cuz I’m pretty such the Wild West™️ is just a desert where ppl live#ALSO I FOCUSED ON PLANTS FROM ARIZONA RATHER THAN TEXAS LIKE A DUMBFUCK. THE WILD WEST IS TEXAN !!!!#but whatever. more or less the same plants
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If you don’t mind, can you explain your last post? How would a metal comb (I’m picturing a little plastic hair comb but metal) “save your hands” and why would someone have to get flown off a mountain because of a cactus? That sounds scary! (I am extremely not from an area with cacti, haha)
Morning lovely! Okay so we're doing some show and tell kind of.
These two cacti are Cholla(choy-ya). One is a Teddy Bear Cholla and the other is Chain/Chain Fruit Cholla these two cacti are better known as jumping cholla or jumping cactus. As you can see they have a lot of spines, the problem however is that sometimes even just walking past them means they're going to latch onto your skin, hair, clothes, or even your pets fur(their feet. These cacti are sometimes called horse cripplers). That is where your handy metal comb comes in. I use greyhound combs but i know some people who use sturdy metal hair picks.
Instead of getting the pieces of cacti stuck into your hand trying to pull them off you slide the comb between your skin and the cactus and essentially fling it off of your skin/clothes/ECT (away from people. Don't throw cacti at people) you then take a look to make sure there are no remaining barbs and take a handy set of needle nose pliers and pull them out if needed.
As for being flown down of the hiking trails and mountains. It's hot here like it doesn't really drop into the 80F range at night unless we get lucky, so hikers start up the mountains every morning, and by noon it's already 100+ degrees outside so AZ Game & Fish and park rangers call emergency services and they use helicopters to fly down the injured, trapped or dehydrated hikers that can't make it back down. While it doesn't happen often occasionally people will get flown off a hiking trail for falling into a cholla garden and being unable to move.
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Chain Fruit Cholla at Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona
See more of My Top 10 Favourite Photography Locations in the American Southwest on the blog:
http://annemckinnell.com/2018/03/15/10-favourite-photography-locations-in-the-american-southwest/
#Chain Fruit Cholla#Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument#national monument#arizona#landscape#landscape photography#nature#nature photography
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🌵 Prickly Pals 🌵
The one in the first pic was the original. I bought it two years ago and it was practically only an inch and a half tall. Now it’s one and a half feet tall. Pieces of it broke off and I listened to my mom and just put them in some soil. They ended up sprouting, too. There are four in the last pic. The two in the second are the same age as the ones in the last but they weren’t in a very good pot so I transplanted them to their own pot and they began to flourish. I have a Rhipsalidopsis hybrids plant too and, thank God, it’s doing better. It was wilting extremely badly.
#cactus plants#cacti#plants#nature#gardening#Nikon D3400#flora#DSLR#cactus strawflower#mini cholla#chain fruit cholla#tiger jaws#Faucaria tigrina#Cylindropuntia spp.#golden pincushion#Mammillaria celsiana
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Estes Canyon wildlife: you’ve got your eponymous Organ Pipe cactus, your Jumping Cholla or “chain fruit cactus,” your teddybear cholla, your palo verde (which dispenses with leaves and photosynthesizes through its green bark), and of course your gorm
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Sonoran Friends, February 2020
Carnegiea gigantea (Saguaro)
Ferocactus wislizeni (Southwestern Barrel Cactus)
Cylindropuntia fulgida (Chain-fruit Cholla)
Larrea tridentata (Creosote Bush)
#nature#nature photography#desert#desert photography#sonoran desert#arizona#cactus#photography#original photogrpahy
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So this little guy is special. He is my favorite type of cactus 🌵. He is a chain fruit cholla aka jumping cholla. #cactus #plant #plantlife🌱 #plantlifethuglife #nature #desert #deserts (at Saguaro National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bygnyxwg21L/?igshid=hh1za2lvzn3r
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
After just a few minutes at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, I knew it was going to be one of my favorite places. It is such a special place.
As I snaked along the path that led me up to the top of the mountain, I was careful not to touch or bump into anything – and I mean anything. All the plants looked like they wanted to reach out and stick me. In fact, one of the plants, the chain fruit cholla, has been given the nickname of the jumping cactus because its spiny balls sometimes appear to jump from the plant or the ground onto you.…
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#Arizona#desert camping#Desert Hiking#National Parks#Organ Pipe Cactus#Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
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Tiny chain fruit cholla 🤱 thank you @creativetribeworkshop and @theresadelaney for this amazing @tombowusa pen! It works so well!!! (at Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0VB2bjWOT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ylw79kuwalgb
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Chain Fruit Cholla Cactus - April 2018
The Besh-Ba-Gowah Ruins in Globe, Arizona, are a neat site, with a lot of history. But it is hard to tell what is original ruins and what is reconstruction. To me, it was obviously a fortress intended to protect the Solado peoples from their enemies. The rangers at the site down play that aspect of it.
There are some outstanding cacti growing throughout the ruins. This image is a huge Chain Fruit Cactus. You usually don’t see these standing alone. The caretakers at the site must pick up the dropped branches that would normally spread the cactus throughout the area.
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Vignette: Clare Hirn
Although Clare Hirn has been a working artist pretty much her entire life, she had never been to an artist’s retreat or had a residency experience. “Raising two kids was one of the reasons,” she explains, “it always seemed so difficult to get away.”
But she has just returned from a month spent at Rancho Linda Vista near Oracle, Arizona. The retreat was established 50 years ago by artists who were teaching at the University of Arizona and Hirn found it to be a very welcoming artist community.
Hirn was given a guest cabin with studio space in which to live and work, and describes the experience as, “so rejuvenating! It was just what I needed!”
“My stay was a mini-sabbatical that allowed me to concentrate on painting and drawing for 30 days. Because I was “dropped” into an amazing landscape so new to me, and literally right outside my kitchen window, I allowed myself to just focus on that as subject matter. I took paper and a few other painting supports that fit in my borrowed luggage, and ample drawing and painting supplies. I bought canvas and some other materials in Tucson, about an hour south of Oracle.”
Hirn has a strong reputation as a landscape artist in the Ohio River Valley, and the change in terrain provided opportunity for discovery: “The distances can be deceptive. The landscape would dip and roll more than you realize. After I did a drawing, I would go walking into what I had just drawn, only to find that there were steep inclines. The ground would open up a whole other space.”
She found unexpected inspiration in in the chain fruit cholla, which grows in abundance in the area. It appears in the drawings that we see here, but it also became a part of the work itself when Hirn filtered the desert soil through the physical openings of the porous bark onto paper coated with medium. The result was "Cholla Triptych".
Even though the hand of an artist is evident in the marks of the drawings and paintings, Hirn’s proportion and sense of light are still realistic enough to suggest photography, but no filter would capture the same understanding of how color defines space that we detect in this work.
Clare Hirn received a significant scholarship to attend the New York Academy of Art – Graduate School of Figurative Art, located in Manhattan. The curriculum continues to focus on strong foundational skills for working “realistically” from life and the figure.
After graduating with her masters in painting and drawing in 1990, Hirn worked for a mural design firm in NYC, learning the techniques of working large scale. Upon returning to her hometown of Louisville, KY she pursued both mural work and her personal painting, participating and receiving awards in many regional shows. Hirn’s fine art murals and paintings grace many homes, businesses, and public spaces and have appeared in numerous publications.
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky
Education: BA (Individualized Major Program), Indiana University in Bloomington; MFA in painting and drawing, New York Academy of Art - Graduate School of Figurative Art.
Website: http://www.clarehirnstudio.com
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#landscape painting#Arizona#Rancho Linda Vista#Oracle Arizona#desert#artist's retreat#University of Arizona#cholla
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Tucson, Arizona, cultivates its foodie reputation – with a nod from Unesco
Having gained Unesco city of gastronomy recognition, Tucsons new wave of downtown restaurants are making the most of the areas unusual desert foods
The desert surrounding Tucson, Arizona, is filled with soaring Saguaro cactus, their bright red fruits long a delicacy here. The abundance of this native food is one reason why, last December, Tucson became Americas first Unesco city of gastronomy, joining just 18 others worldwide, despite having fewer fancy restaurants than many US cities, and being one of its poorest.
Its a city whose food heritage is a big part of its identity, says Gary Nabhan, director of the University of Arizonas Center for Regional Food Studies. Yes we have award-winning chefs, but the vitality of our farm-to-table food system is a key reason why we were recognised.
Tucson has the longest history of cultivation in North America (dating back 4,000 years) and the nearby Sonoran desert is one of the worlds lushest, blooming with over 400 edible plants, used by the Tohono Oodham Native Americans for centuries. Its also home to Native Seed/SEARCH, one of the worlds biggest seed banks, where people can get desert-adapted seeds for free.
Batch Bar and Cafe, Tucson
One area that was pivotal in helping win the award is downtown Tucson. Currently undergoing a revamp, its home to increasing numbers of farm-to-table restaurants and food festivals (Tucson Meet Yourself in October is one of Americas largest). A couple of years ago, the unveiling of a four-mile tram line, the Sun Link Streetcar which runs from the university to the Mercado district, west of downtown became a catalyst for regeneration of this once-neglected area, with a new wave of bars, restaurants and street food stalls escalating it into a foodie destination.
Most of the food businesses are independently owned, with chefs often experimenting with exciting new recipes, using unusual desert foods such as cholla buds, mesquite flour, tepary beans or prickly pears and rents remain low enough for people to be creative with their start-ups.
The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson
Among recent openings are Batch Caf & Bar, which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House, which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras, an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucsons food is multicultural), and Charro Steak, a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
Despite these changes, the restaurants are interlaced with thrift shops, and live music still plays on the streets: Tucson has not lost its gritty edge. On the fringe of downtown, yet still part of it, is the particularly hip Barrio Viejo neighbourhood (a Chlo campaign was recently shot here) with streets of colourful old adobe houses.
Adobe homes in Barrio Viejo. Photograph: ML Harris/Getty Images
The nearby Downtown Clifton is a small, laid-back boutique motel with 10 rooms (from 75 a night), all furnished in mid-century style. It opened last year and is a welcome addition to an accommodation scene heavy with chain hotels.
Most of our guests come to enjoy the bars and restaurants, Nick Delisle, the manager, says. Downtown has grown up a lot recently, so young people are moving back here. Its now a place all the locals flock to, too.
Read more: www.theguardian.com
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Cylindropuntia fulgida / Chain fruit cholla
Harriet K. Maxwell Desert Wildflower Loop Trail
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix
#cylindropuntia fulgida#chain fruit cholla#jumping cholla#desert botanical garden#harriet k. maxwell desert wildflower loop trail#cactus#succulent#arizona
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