Christmas tree flowers

It's December, and I am missing pohutukawa ... (link for my non Kiwi readers if such there be)

But - look what I found in Arizona. This will do til the real thing comes along.

I think it's a calliandra

Small rooms of Yuma

It was mild enough when we went there last month, but Yuma gets as hot in the summer as you'd expect for a town within spitting distance of the Mexican border. It's an interesting little place in its own quiet way, just south of the confluence of two mighty southwestern rivers: the Gila and the Colorado.