April 18th

We had to work for a while yesterday, but today we have no rentals and so we sleep in a little.  Got up had a great breakfast of french toast.  After breakfast we looked out side and the wind was still blowing pretty hard, so we wrote off going out in the RZR, but we wanted to head over to the Discovery Center to say good by to a great friend Louise.  She takes care of the discovery center and help us out a lot this year with things to look for and just visiting with her.
After we left the Discovery Center we head towards the big town of Borrego Springs. Borrego Springs is fast becoming known for its magical ( some would say surreal) menagerie of freestanding life-size sculptures of creatures that roamed the valley millions of years ago.  Three sculptures of the prehistoric creatures that were predecessors to modern-day elephants were placed on Borrego Springs Road just south of Big Horn road on April 10. The statues, crafted of metal by Ricardo A. Breceda of Perris, California, have created quite a buzz in the community.
The project doesn’t end with the gomphotheres. Avery has asked Breceda, a former construction welder who created his first metal dinosaur 10 years ago, to sculpt camelops, sloth, turtles and other creatures that once roamed Anza-Borrego. 
Here are a few of the sculptures that we found today.  I hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last sculpture start on one side of the road, went under it and came up on the other side.  The work and time this gentleman put into these are out of this world.  If you are ever near Borrago Springs you have to see this fine art work.

We also got a few pictures of the cactus's blooming, I can't remember their names but the blooms looked great.  Beside pictures tell a story all by them self.

 

 

It is something that these plants are putting out such beautiful flowers with no rain in over two months.

 

This cactus flower is on a Ocotillo cactus, I do remember a couple.

I thought this looked kind of cool when I took the picture, but now I am wondering what I seen.  Oh well one dead cactus!!!!

 

We had a great day and the wind is starting to die down, I am glad for that.  Anyway we have 12 more days and off we head north.  We have had a great fall, winter and the start of spring here in the desert.  We are looking forward to coming back next year.  We have made some great friends and look forward to coming back.  Their is so much more to see here and we have just scratched the surface of this area.  Plus we have a lot more geocaches to find.