Get ready for an adventure in the captivating Sonora Desert, Arizona. Photo by .Mark Capurso on 500px

Coyote Late Afternoon Sonora Desert, Arizona ©Laura Quick #coyote #canislatrans #sonoradesert #arizona #lateafternoon #photojourney #©lauraquick #travel #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/B4pll5BnLBH/?igshid=1vg0t70mpra4x

So transpiring across the upper #wildwest in four states is a massive early snowstorm dropping the temperature in a rush towards winter while down here in #SouthernArizona I enjoy a morning at 72 degrees Fahrenheit with a high today nearing 90 degrees. Note to self: never live where orange trees don’t grow! 🌵 . Just 48 hours ago I snapped this photo with the @fujifilmx_us #XT100 and I’m loving this little camera and using it to snap the #SonoraDesert of #Arizona. This type of cactus is a #JumpingCholla also known as a #HangingFruitCholla. It’s one of my favorite cactuses down here and of course it makes beautiful silhouettes! :) (at Apache Junction, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Cwwq_Felg/?igshid=yf0at21cj4xd

SONORA FEELS! Today the American and Bryological and Lichenological Society hiked a couple different altitudes at Madera Canyon. I quickly gave into my solo-hiker habits and peeled off to do the long loop. It was hot, no doubt, but the shade of mesquite and oaks and ponderosas was just enough and there was plenty of pretty things to occupy my mind. Here’s Cladonia chlorophaea (probably), a colorful baby Mammillaria cactus, the periwinkle blue neck of the Sonoran collared lizard Crotaphytus nebrius, a red flower I don’t know (@waxwingboheme do you know it?) doing tree pose in a big hat, the huge waxy flower of a giant Mammillaria, another red flower I don’t know (halp?), the most perfect Xanthomendoza lichen I’ve ever seen, and me looking super stoked in my new favorite hiking/fieldwork hat. Thanks for selling this perfect hat to me when I was slightly drunk at a beer festival @rmohats #hiking #tucson #rmohats #arizona #mammillaria #cactus #lichens #lichenology #abls #flowers #desert #sonoradesert #mycoblonde #cladonia (at Madera Canyon, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0eoxSBg71x/?igshid=5qwxhncgond0

I am in love with the summer sky! Our monsoon season here in the Sonora Desert makes it such a beautiful blue! #Sky #BlueSky #SonoraDesert #ArizonaSky #AZsky (at Sonoran Desert)

Meet a beautiful #SaguaroFamily - a #father and his two adorable #sons in the #SonoraDesert near #Ajo #Arizona not far from #Mexico! They see people walking through the #desert all hours of the day on their way to find the American Dream! One of these travelers discarded his empty back next to this family and the sands of time have eroded the nylon... #familiesareforever #cactus #desertlife #sonyalpha #sonya7r #tbirdnation #outsidethird #oldmexico #southwest #desertsouthwest #az @sonyalpha (at Ajo, Arizona)

Get ready for an adventure in the captivating Sonora Desert, Arizona. Photo by .Mark Capurso on 500px

Sonora Desert, pastel on paper, 19x31" (framed) . See it at @superfineartfair Seattle August 19-22 . #superfineartfair #superfineartfairseattle #desert #desertlandscape #sonoradesert #pastelpainting #pasteldrawing #californiadesert (at Blythe, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRohDJUnYiQ/?utm_medium=tumblr