Spring is the ideal time to explore the desert trails when the weather is starting to get a little warmer. The last remnants of snow at higher elevations are still evident but disappearing fast heralding the inevitable arrival of the summer season with its scorching heat. It’s a very pretty, colourful and perfumed time of year when the wildflowers are in bloom and the desert vegetation is rich and verdant. This is a collection of a few of the spring themed images taken recently from various trails around the local parks in the Las Vegas valley that illustrate the vernal beauty of the desert.
Rainbow Mountain reflections
Blackbrush flowering in Red Rock Canyon
Flowering creosote bush in the Mojave Desert
Creosote bush in flower
Verdant spring vegetation
Winding Mariposa Lily catching the sun's rays
Plantain goldenweed flowers
Springtime in Red Rock Canyon