For Our Grand-kids

We are camped in the desert of Arizona near Quartzsite. There are over 100 thousand RVs here. At night it looks like a city of lights. This picture is the five RVs in our group. We are camped on a little hill of rocks. This is the wash at the bottom of the little hill. most of the trees and bushes grow here in the sand. If it rains real hard in the mountains nearby, the wash will have streams of water in it.

There are cacti of many sizes in this area. The one near my hand is a cholla (jumping cactus). You can see how long the thorns are. That's what the man's shoe has stuck to the toe. He had to use pliers to pull them out. If one gets stuck in our quad's tire, we would get a flat.

The tall cactus I'm standing by is a suquaro (su-whar-o). They sometimes have many more arms than this one. Do you see the hole just above my hand? It is usually made by a little bird for a nest.

The pictures of the leaves are three different trees in our area. They all have tiny leaves because there is so little rain here. And that is why the trees are very small and so few of them.

Hannah, I hope this explains some of the questions you had.