"It is not easy to keep in with the camp cloud while such plant people are standing preaching by the wayside."
-JOHN MUIR, My First Summer in the Sierra
Left to right: Ocotillo: Fouquieria splendens, Littleleaf Palo Verde: Cercidium microphyllum, Prickly Pear: Opuntia sp., Saguaro: Carnegiea gigantea, Creosote Bush: Larrea tridentata.