Arizona was filled with places with most daunting and excellent names, like Deadman Wash and Bloody Basin. I learned on this trip that the saguaro is one of my favorite plants. Wiki says, "They may grow their first side arm anywhere from 15-25 years of age." Saguaro always dreadfully tacky in southwestern art set against bad sunsets and ponchos but in real life they're incredible specimens - the only vertical growth in a wasteland of sand and dry shrubs. They stand in the thousands in the desert like unspeaking sentinels. I felt very disconcerted but awed looking at them.
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