Desert Botanical Garden 2

Here are some of the plants and animals we saw.  They loved this Old Man Cactus, because it was 'tricking you' since it looks 'fluffy'.

camouflaged lizard

 After we took a class picture, someone noticed this lizard on the rock right behind us

 The biggest flower we found (bird of paradise)

 organ pipe cactus with part of an arm cut off to reveal a star:

 Pretty cactus blooms

 Below is a round tailed ground squirrel (but he moved when I took the shot), which the class really enjoyed watching.  I didn't get a picture of the nearby rabbit.  I think the excited exclamations scared him off.

 Mexican poppies

We also saw lots of saguaro 'cactus hotels' and some where we could see the ribs.