Saguaro Hillside
by Robert Bales
Title
Saguaro Hillside
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
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Found this beautiful hillside while spending a little time at Cave Creek Park.
The Cave Creek Regional Park, one of Maricopa County's newest parks, protects roughly 3,000 acres of extremely lush desert foothills just north of the Phoenix city limits. The steep and very rocky slopes offer excellent habitat for cacti, desert trees, and many other plants. The sparse soil is very well-drained, retaining little moisture. Yet the steep slopes provide profuse runoff when it does rain. In other words, ideal desert conditions. The result is exceptionally beautiful desert scenery.
The saguaro is the largest cactus of the Sonoran Desert and its most well known feature. Almost all non-desert dwelling people immediately visualize a huge, multi-armed saguaro when they think about deserts. However the saguaro is actually a rather finicky plant and thrives only in particular conditions such as those found at this park. Large multi-armed saguaros are actually not that common.
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February 22nd, 2017
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Comments (16)
Kathryn Jones
Wonderful, Robert! Please put these in "A Gorgeous Green - Nature Only", if you have not already done so..
Reynold Jay
Let's climb up there and see what is on the other side! Lovely work of art, Robert! FAV!
Michael Mirijan
This wonderful picture is featured on the homepage of the "Pictures for Present" group.
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