Joshua Blossoms from Lake Isabella to Kingman

I suppose one of the reasons we have been so comfortable in Arizona is because it and the people are very much like Texas - more West Texas than East, but Texas nonetheless.  The livestock are all healthy and handsome.  Granpa loves catching a picture of several horses surrounded by the wonders of the Lord's hand.  The larger you can make this photo the better you understand the vast expanse that they live in.

We're moving down into Joshua Tree country.  The plants of the desert are beginning to believe it is the beginning of Spring and are "greening" up.

Even the Joshua trees are blooming!

We find blossoms in all stages of opening.  They are wonderful at any stage, but ...

...  as for fragrance? Not so much.

These guys may look like cactus, but they are trees.  They are used as such in front yards!  

But if you took a chainsaw to them you would see wood and tree rings.

Also, see one of our earlier posts from October, 2013 on Yucca plants - which is what Joshua trees really are:      http://www.thetravelerstwo.net/2013/10/were-off-to-california.html