Snow & Cacti

 SAGUARO CACTUS

Yesterday (January 11, 2012), I took a photo one block East of our apartment, 3 1/2 blocks West of Lake Michigan. The photo was lost in the virtual ether so I will describe it to you: it showed a Hamamelis vernalis (a Spring Witchhazel) blooming. Even though this plant is one of our first shrubs to bloom, normally that would be the end of February or early March. Yikes!

So to soothe the soul, I went back to these photos from my trip to Tucson in March 2008...which shocked me because I remembered this great trip with Scott Calhoun of Zona Gardens as in 2010! Check my blog for pix & text for March 16, 18, 22, 24, 29 and 30 of 2008.

CHOLLA CACTUS