Hi Matt, Uli and all, I just returned from AZ with stops at Yuma; Organ Pipe National Momument -- south of Ajo on CALMEX border; Sonoma Desert Museum, Tucson; Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, AZ -- just east of Phoenix; and Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Flowers at or just past peak. Terrific. Guess I saw "The Sheik" movie too many times with its bare sand dunes. The Sonoran Desert is positively alive and vibrant. Best, Joyce Miller, Sacramento, California