Things that thrive in the desert heat….

 

I was thinking about this the other day while complaining (yes, I WAS complaining) about the heat this time of year.  As I sat melting into my car seat, I thought about all the things that actually do well in this weather.

Tumbleweeds definitely are thriving this time of year.  They grow anywhere that someone looks away from for about five minutes.  Really, that’s how fast they spring up in the yard some days.

 

 

Cotton is in it’s element right now….growing like weeds….tumbleweeds.  The blossoms are just starting to set on, but this field will bake in the sun until sometime in November before they harvest the fluffy white cotton.

 

These pretty Black-eyed Susans are all along the roadways out here in the “country”.  They sway and dance in the heat and wind.

 

Okay…I know….he would thrive anywhere and really doesn’t have anything to do with my post, but I didn’t get over to get a picture of my cousin Bill in his pool.  And let’s face it…this picture is worth looking at again.

QUOTES:

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”  Robert  H.  Schuller

“Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive”  Jean Paul Richter