Wordless Wednesday…Joshua Tree wildflowers

Friday flowers…white-bract blazing star

The white-bract blazing star hides behind several aliases: ku-u and sand blazing star. Although by any name they look as if they’d be more at home in rainier climates, they’re native to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts as well as other places in Nevada, Arizona, and Baja California. But they, along with all the other vegetation, looked quite happy about all the moisture they’d had in the weeks prior to my visit. In common with some people, they aren’t as flashy as those around them but up close have a delicate beauty, although all flowers here are anything but delicate.

“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look at the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it’s full of life, it’s full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it’s complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.” – Paulo Coelho

Wordless Wednesday…golden chia in Joshua Tree

Ok, mostly wordless. Just have to point out that this, to me, is another plant Dr. Seuss would have been proud to call his own. Joshua Tree might have been created by him. 🙂

Joshua Tree…flowers for Ukraine