November 24th, 2008 by alephnaught
Pictures from Palm Desert
We drove out to Palm Desert to visit Aviva’s mom and her boyfriend Dave. They’re snowbirds – they spend the winter in Palm Desert and the summer outside Detroit.
We walked on El Paseo on Thursday (lots of closed stores, not a good sign for the economy), and walked around Palm Springs on Saturday (the Sunday paper said that over 90 stores are closed in Palm Springs, also not a good sign for the economy). We stopped at the Botanical Garden again, and the owner and his father were there; they showed us around a bit, and I took a couple of pictures of interesting desert plants they raise.
A plant from the Namibian desert – it looks like a skull
This plant stinks and draws flies (they are in the center) – the flies pollinate the flower
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+Bob Hays
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5:14 am on November 25th, 2008
New blog post: Pictures from Palm Desert https://www.alephnaught.com/Blog/?p=790
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