Closeup of a blanket flower blooming in a field of wildflowers, with a beautiful gradient of yellow-orange-red coloring the petals arrayed around the puffy, dark red center of the flower, with other blooming blanket flowers, some post-bloom flowers, and a few seed heads among the greenery in the background.

A patch of very prickly, prickly pear cactuses growing near the ground in gravelly red soil. The green cactus paddles with their long, white spines are contrasted beautifully with a few, dark red cactus pears growing at the tops of several of the paddles.

A pretty, magenta-pink blossom with a longish, tubular shape, blooming on the stem of a desert willow tree, with other decaying blossoms and dried seed pods nearby, plus thin, green, spearlike leaves on the stem below the flowers, with other greenery and cloudy gray skies blurred in the background.

A torii-style pergola with orange metal support columns and wooden slats on top, serving as a gateway at the entrance of a research greenhouse, surrounded by trees and other plant greenery, with a hint of evening sun shining through clouds and illuminating the gate.