Okay, why the out-of-focus Kat in a cactus? I took this photo using Kat’s Nikon DSLR instead of my far superior Canon DSLR and well I have no idea how her camera works so I just pointed it at her and snapped. Maybe the more important question should be, why is Kat trying to hide behind the cactus? Because she’s looking for shade due to the fact that it’s getting hot quickly out here at the Desert Botanical Garden. That’s a poor answer and not exactly true either. The truth is, seeing we are at the Desert Botanical Garden, I wanted a quick desert-themed image of Kat that I might use for my blog entry and as I was sitting down near the entrance to finish up some blogging about our 4th of July trip I considered the first prop I saw and, well, this was it. As for the camera, yes, it was hers and, no, I’m not familiar with it, but I’m sure it’s just fine and it was just a case of operator error. The rest of the images were taken by our niece.
Today was free entry day at the garden. We didn’t know that as we headed this way early in the morning but a whole lot of other people knew about it. We were here shortly after 7:00 and it did strike me that it seemed like there were too many cars already in the parking lot but nothing too extraordinary. That would all change over the course of the next hour as the bargain hunters continued to pour in. While I continued to busy myself wordsmithing in the little bit of shade I could find, Kat worked her way through the desert landscape finding impressions she might carry with her.
What Kat’s impressions were of the garden today remain with her and while she’s obviously sharing some of her photos with me we’ll just have to wait and see if she jots down some notes on her own blog about her thoughts. You can visit Kat’s Travels and Adventures blog by clicking the link.
On a nice big monitor, there’s a nice big rabbit in this photo. On a phone, I’m not so sure you’ll see much of anything. By the time Kat circles around and is back where I’m set up it’s quickly approaching 100 degrees (38 celsius) and a hundred times more people in the Garden than you might wish for. Off to lunch and trying to avoid the oppressive sun for the rest of the afternoon until we pick up Caroline from her office later in the afternoon.