Friday Field Foto #86: Ocotillo in New Mexico
June 12, 2009
It’s been pretty hectic the last couple weeks, I just haven’t had much time for blogging … this week’s Friday Field Foto barely shows any geology. It’s just a photograph I like.
Ocotillo plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico (© 2009 clastic detritus)
Happy Friday!
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Clastic Detritus 
everyday can’t be geo-pic day.
Are you going to have time to warp out? Hope so! Nice pic… I’ve heard of these but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen one first-hand.
lockwood … unfortunately, no … I’ve got a big deadline for re-submitting some paper revisions coming up
Ocotillo is one of my desert favs! Its wonderful how they go from brown spiny stalks to green with red tips in such a short time after a rain.
I’ve come across one or two folks who’ve been successful at planting ocotillo cuttings in a fence line and actually making an ocotillo fence (like a living coyote fence). Cool beans. Thanks.
Ocotillo? Awesome! Geology has many many faces so yes, we can have a geo-pic every day. But we still will never see it all!
By the way! There is geosphere and biosphere in this photo so there absolutely is an abundance of geology.
I just saw ocotillo for the first time while in Joshua Tree NP in April – it’s an amazing plant to be sure!