We visited the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

We didn’t realize it, but they had a big “Chihuly in the Desert” glass exhibit throughout the gardens; here’s an info sign:

We enjoy Chihuly’s work, having encountered them several times elsewhere, so it was nice to see them:

There are of course lots of cacti in the gardens, too:

The little yellow boxes each contain a candle, for an evening event. There were thousands of them around the gardens. That’d be a lot of work to set up and light!

A selfie:

Nice cuddly heart-shaped prickly pear cactus (my favorite kind of cacti):

An indoor Chihuly exhibit:

Funky top; a picture from the other side later:

Dead:

They had some demonstrations of structures from various desert cultures:

The other side of that funky top cactus:

We bought a little Christmas cactus at their gift store, to serve as our desert-themed Christmas tree in the coach: