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Fire Barrels, Ironwood Pod, Titan Missile - 5/28/2020

Created and Updated by Charles Miles on 5/28/2020.

2020 May Fire Barrel Flower in the Waterman Mountains
2020 May Fire Barrel Flower in the Waterman Mountains. Charles Miles. 5/28/2020.
2020 May Fire Barrel Flower Cactus Flower
2020 May Fire Barrel Flower Cactus Flower. Charles Miles. 5/28/2020.
2020 May Fire Barrel Cactus
2020 May Fire Barrel Cactus. Charles Miles. 5/28/2020.

The Fire Barrels are blooming, the Saguaro Flowers are fading and the Ironwoods have seed pods - the season is spiraling into a blinding heat - near noon in the Waterman Mountains the heat is breathtaking.

2020 May Ironwood Pod
2020 May Ironwood Pod. Charles Miles. 5/28/2020.

There is no end to the strangeness in the desert - off Johnston Mine Road an interpretive site now covers Titan Missile Site 570-3. There were 18 of these sites in Arizona that were manned 24/7 from 1963 to 1987. In 2016 the BLM and the US Air Force dedicated this interpretive site in Ironwood Forest National Monument. Titan II Missile Interpretive Site - Friends of Ironwood Forest.

2020 May Looking over the Titan II Missile Interpretive Site to the Silver Bell Mountains
2020 May Looking over the Titan II Missile Interpretive Site to the Silver Bell Mountains. Charles Miles. 5/28/2020.
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