Our hikers head out from the Sunset Vista Trailhead. 

Poppies and filaree (alias heron's bill and stork's bill) 

Lupine, the tiny white unidentified flower, and white desert chicory flowers 

Desert chicory 

Lavendar-pink globemallow 

Julie amidst poppies and saguaros 

Arizona Jewel Flower 

Brittlebush in the foreground and Picacho Peak in the background 

Desert wildflowers 

Yellow brittlebush in the foreground 

Julie, Richard, and Robert 

Richard examines chollas that look like monkeys! 

Nice mountain peaks line the horizon to the south. 

Richard, Robert, and Julie pause with lupine in the foreground. 

Bluish purple lupine and pinkish purple scorpionweed (or heliotrope?) in the foreground 

Wildflowers 

Poppies, lupine and cholla 

Three pretty poppies 

Poppies with other wildflowers 

What is this white flower? 

We think the fuzzy white flower is popcorn flower, but what are the other two kinds of tiny white flowers? 

Julie poses 

Yellow brittlebush flowers and purple lupine in front of the peak 

Desert flowers 

Clouds approach.