Tohono Chul Park Mom's Favorite Park

Friday we headed to Mom's favorite park, Tohono Chul.  Bob loves it too and has spent many mornings birding here.

This beautiful stone greets you as you enter.

This cactus garden had a new addition. This sculpture was done by Kioko Mwitiki a Kenyan sculptor, who uses trash metals to design beautiful things.

This is the palos verde tree.

A wall of pots that have been turned into a fountain.

Courtyards in the park make for beautiful settings for weddings or pictures.

This is a nightblooming Cereus.  It blooms once a year at night.  Not the same day each year, the gardeners watch the buds carefully, to notify members of when it will be in bloom.

According to Wickipedi, this is what the flower looks like.

A small stream runs through the park.

A favorite desert creature.

Bob says the hummingbirds love this plant.  We don't know what it is called.  For all our friends who think you can't have flowers in the desert, enjoy.

I think the rocks even add beauty to this garden.

This Moorish Garden is dedicated to Mary Kiefer, who was a neighbor and good friend of my mom's.  I wish Mom would have lived to see this.

This is a pomegranate bush.  It has petite pomegranates.

This apple is the type that Eve used to tempt Adam.  Not too tasty to humans but by the amount of holes, insects and birds seem to like it.

Another example of Kioko Mwitiki sculpture.

A visiting lizard.

More flowers in the desert.

They were beginning to decorate for the Holiday Lights, which we attended with Mom last November.  This visit has been bittersweet for me.  I still love Tucson, but sure miss visiting mom while I enjoy this area.