quick group photo of some arizona flowers while i get myself organized from my last work trip. i didn't get any good ocotillo shots but they will be farther along by this week!
when i am out for field work i am REALLY offline. we often don't have service for 10 days. i don't know what's been going on online in the last week and i don't need to know. (i did wake up early enough on our hotel night to watch the rocket explode in real time. that was kinda fun.) since i only have (looks at watch) 3 days to post before i leave again you might see a lot more of me soon.
anyway feel free to chime in with plant talk. arizona is a real interesting place and has, shockingly, almost nothing for published botanies. aside from the last-updated-in-the-60s official flora brick, the best resource i've found is a wildflowers phone app?? so getting accurate keys to species is surprisingly challenging, unless you Know A Guy who's not a botanist but has been puttering around arizona for the last 40 years and simply knows everything already (i do not Know a Guy. i have to be my own Guy. i am trying.)
update because @sedge caught me in a filthy plant lie being a lazy botanist, where i looked at my camera roll and said "sure. penstemon eatonii. good enough" and didn't actually look at the photo i posted of a non-native aloe. anyway it's been replaced with a nice pink Penstemon parryi.