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Our desert lavender at Desert Life Design

It's been a long, hot summer at Desert Life Design, but our lovely desert lavender has added spots of color in our heat-stressed landscape. It's a beauty!


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Desert lavenders love the heat!

Desert lavender at Desert Life Design



A spiny pincushion cactus greets all Desert Life Design visitors!

Along our sidewalk entrance to Desert Life Design, we have a lovely spiny pincusion cactus (mammillaria spinosissima). It produces petite, vivid and abundant flowers throughout our southwestern year.


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Spiny pincushion cactus flowers at Desert Life Design!

Cactus flowers outside at Desert Life Design



Argentine giant cactus flower

At Desert Life Design's home base, we photographed the Argentine giant cactus as it unfurled its blooms throughout the night.


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Night-blooming hedgehog cactus

Argentine giant cactus flower


Close-up of Argentine giant cactus flower


Yucca flower

Yucca flower on a large stalk in the back of the Desert Life Design office! Yuccas thrive in the long summer, southwest desert heat and tolerate single degree, night-time temperatures in the desert's summer. They are tough.


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Yucca flower in the southern New Mexico desert

Large yucca flower in New Mexico desert


A fiery skipper on lantana

The golden hues of a fiery skipper butterfly (Hylephila phyleus) perfectly complement the cool purple hues on our trailing lantana.


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This fiery skipper butterfly loves our trailing lantana at Desert Life Design!

Fiery skipper on lantana

Butterfly named fiery skipper on lantana


It's a bobcat!

This bobcat had the demeanor of a lazy house cat on a hot, summer afternoon. The only difference, though, was that this cat had much bigger paws. Those large paws look like they could do some real damage.


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This bobcat was on Desert Life Design's back porch. He looked hot, thirsty and hungry.

A bobcat watches Desert Life Design in New Mexico




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Southwest Scenery

The southwestern landscape of the United States features rugged landscapes, and equally tough plants and animals that thrive in the harsh desert environment.


At Desert Life Design, we use photography in almost all of our graphic design projects. Photos can make complex messages, hidden emotions, and psychological motivations easy to understand.


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Desert Life Design™ is based in metro Phoenix, Arizona. Here, we strive for motivational graphic design and concisely written communications in the technical writing discipline.