Sawtooth Agave #3
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Sawtooth Agave #2
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Sawtooth Agave #1
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Fearsome Flier
Tucson, Arizona
2020

The decorated nose of an Lockheed VC-140 at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

Perfect Imperfect
Tucson, Arizona
2020

Last Stand
Tucson, Arizona
2019

Flight of Fancy
Tucson, Arizona
2020

Another view of Faile’s painted airplane.

Stories of Love
Tucson, Arizona
2020

At the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, they provided a few old airplanes to serve as canvases for contemporary artists to paint. This plane (also featured in the next few POTDs was painted by a collaboration duo from New York City calling themselves Faile.

Spent Beauty #41
Cochise Stronghold, Arizona
2020

Beauty in the title of this image definitely is only relevant to the previous living state of this yucca plant; in it’s current state it is strikingly grotesque rather than beautiful.

Sawtooth Yucca
Cochise Stronghold, Arizona
2020

I stopped to photograph this yucca because of the way the shadows emphasized the namesake teeth but I was subsequently almost as intrigued by the (nearly) regularly spaced holes along the leaf edges. Clearly there is something about those leaf edges and perhaps the “roots” of the teeth themselves that attracts a certain kind of bug.