Roaming around the Alabama Hills, I noticed several of these cool cacti. It's fascinating how different the desert plants are from the midwest forests.

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Watching the new administration take on its hideous form and thinking of parasitic plants like these Medusa midge galls growing on sagebrush. Tiny insects subvert the sagebrush’s growth mechanisms to form their own little leafy nurseries.
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