Sunset on The PdL road

Totally unaltered photo. Taken one year ago on the road between Puerto de Luna and Santa Rosa.

Conoco Station

Inspired by my niece's recent B/W post I decided to play around with some of the photos from my vacation. What do you think? I like the black and white.

HELP! I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS CALLED!!!

One person told me it was mesquite and the Internet referred to the bloom as Mexican Bird of Paradise. I don't know the name but I love the flower. It was a cloudy day when I took the picture so the colors don't read well. The flower is a beautiful yellow with an exotic red "something or other" (real technical jargon) shooting out of the center. Very delicate and thread like - reminds me of a Mimosa flower. No matter what its called I love it.