Spring is here.....but it feels like summer in the desert! We have had temperatures in the mid 80's this week, and it is only going to get warmer. With the heat, though, beautiful flowers have started blooming everywhere.
This it the bear-paw poppy, it is an endangered species and only grows in soil with gypsum in it. I hadn't ever see one bloom until today! :)
A desert tortoise decided to crawl through our job site this afternoon. This too is an endangered species, and it had to be babysat until the Park Resource person could get there. This tortoise is an old one, it is very large (about the size of a hard hat).
The Park lady asked us to paint an orange dot on the tortoise's back so he could be identified in the future. I didn't like the fact we were spraying the tortoise with spray paint....I don't think it liked it either because it went into its shell and didn't come out after that!
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