@Robinowitz I've been a desert dweller on the Mojave Desert for almost 29 years (19 of it a solo life). The explosion of wildflower season on the desert here typically runs from mid February to mid April. So it is winding down with the temperature here on its way up to being the fires of hell in summer. I haven't been able to travel out to where the best shows of flowers on the desert are for around 10 years though. Where I've lived for a dozen years now is a desert landscape, but its one that is man made. My big ranch house before here was in the real desert with all the wildflowers and all the wild creatures that lived there with me. Bobcats, coyotes, fox, cottontail rabbits, ground squirrels, bats, rattlesnakes, lizards, tarantulas, bark scorpions, roadrunners, quail, dove, all the migratory song birds and hummingbirds, butterflies, etc and I had feeders and water fountains for all of them. The male bobcat was like a miffed pet that would walk up to me, look up at me with an uninterested stare with his bobbed tail twitching, then rub against my leg(s) as he walked away. The quail pecked at my toes, the hummers landed on me, the rabbits stood up on their hind legs to beg treats from me. IOW, the creatures there were my "family". Visitors called my place Wild Kingdom (after the old Marlin Perkins/Mutual of Omaha's wildlife TV show from the early 60's to mid 80's when he died). I still have the bark scorpions (just found two of them in my place this week, one on the floor, the other up on a wall) two+ months earlier than normal that are a serious
threat to young children and old pharts like me at night (since I never wear shoes). Before the season for them is over I'll have dozens of them sharing my place inside with me. I also find rattlesnakes here sometimes (outside), I catch them and relocate them to where they can live safely away from humans. A sad change has been that over the years I've lived here almost all other wildlife, insects, etc that was here have disappeared completely that I used to sit long hours on my patio watching every day (even in the extreme heat). So there is not much worth my going outside for anymore.
Long winded and off topic (but the topic here is no longer a part of my life).
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