Wildflower season in the Desert Southwest is ramping up. On Easter Sunday, we took a long drive into the hills, first to do some Geocaching Northeast of Deming. The purpose of this was to work up an appetite for the huge buffet Albert Campos was laying out at his restaurant. (It did not disappoint.. especially the Chicken Cordon Bleu with the surprise inside: Green Chiles). The entire hillsides of the Goodsight mountains were yellow.. somewhat from the Mexican Poppies, but mostly the huge carpets of smaller yellow-green flowers which may or may not be mustardseed.
Following our huge dinner and desert, we needed more exercise, and drove the Mitsubishi up the power line "road" to a point about 3/4 mile from the big blankets of poppies. Far from showing signs of fading away, new bunches of this beautiful flower are showing up every day. Our yard is overrun!
In addition, we spotted many other flowers which are just beginning to pop up. Most of them we've been unable to identify. Some of them we think we've identified. We're leaving it up to you, our loyal readers to look at the pictures in the slide show (below) and help us identify what we're seeing. (It may be easier to click through to the album at Picasa Albums, and look at the larger versions).
