everything that grows here has prickers, including Prickly Pears, but lots of animals eay them anyway. In a pinch, cowmen could burn them off with a blowtorch so the cows could get at them.
The fuzzy things are Cholla; the tall ones, Saguaro. The club shaped one is Old Man of the Mountains.
Prairie Dogs - there aren't many left, now. Cute, though.Below: Taliesin West. Frank Lloyd Wright, having been hard nhit by the Depression, took all the money from one of the few big commissions he had designed that actually got built and came out West, to Phoenix. Falling in love with it, he persuaded his students - they were plentiful enough, in the Depression - to build this for him, iusing almost exclusively stuff that was lying around (nothing ever rusts or rots, here). Really neat, the pix don't do it justice.
After bhe died, his widow took over; it's still going as a very small & select architectural school- maybe a couple dozen students. They'rer housed here until their last year; then, they design and build a dwelling of their own, out on the desert.
Wright had a couple of mantras about the desert - the principal one (for everywhere actualloy) is that the buildings should blend with the landsc ape. No 'cities on a hill' - the buildings tend to nestle down in hollows. Another is that you have lots of through-the-building halls, open to the air on both sides and with one side higher than the other. That way, since hot air rises, they generate a bit of breeze. Amazingly effective, in the desert.
A couple of rocks with petrogloyphs on the, that he picked up somewhere. Back then, you were allowed to do that.
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