When the rains come, this now benign, 15 foot deep wash fills and becomes a torrent of muddy waters powerful enough to sweep along full grown trees, inattentive 4 wheelers, ton sized boulders and just about anything else in its path.
10 million years ago, give or take a million, our local mountain, now weather-chiseled down to 1,450 ft., 750 ft. above the surrounding desert, was a belching volcano, blasting rocks, huge and small alike, up to a mile away from its fiery mouth.
The landscape is awash in millions of these pocked rocks, all scalded with a patina-black jacket and smoothed by the intense heat and corrosive time.
Millions of rocks-Millions of years
In stark contrast to the field of black rocks lies the skeleton of an Ocotillo Cactus cane.
I've looked all morning for this finger tip size flower, computer-leafing through 1000's of Arizona wildflower pictures. I think I may have discovered a new desert flower. With it's four rounded petals, it most resembles a type of primrose....So, I'll name it here and now, " Painted RockPrimrose". Until further notice, please refer to it as such.
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