Sir Stumpy goes West

 

The cactus were blooming their hearts out! Steve wanted to include his hands in the picture for scale; all I could hear was "ow ow ow ouch pointy ow"

 

More desert flowers

 

And desert colors

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure that they were just running drills, but helicopters were flying in and out of the canyon for a couple of hours. Here's a shot of one going over the mountain tops with someone in the basket below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, of course, we had to end the day by finding our burros. Those are seriously the sweetest little faces in the world, aren't they?