TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME

Two healthy saguaros frame a sunrise view of other cactuses at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Southwestern Arizona.
Jack Dykinga

Saguaros and brittlebushes cover the hillsides above New River, north of the Phoenix area, at sunset.
George Stocking

Saguaros tend to grow on rocky, south-facing slopes. These cactuses are in Upper LaBarge Box Canyon, along the Superstition Mountains’ Red Tanks Trail.
Joel Hazelton

The shadows of sunset cloak tall saguaros at the foot of Pusch Ridge, a prominent feature of the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains.
Jessica Morgan

A small percentage of these cactuses, known as cristate or crested saguaros, develop this strange mutation, which some speculate is a result of frost damage. This one is near Picacho Peak, along Interstate 10.
Kerrick James

A saguaro’s twisting limbs glow in the light of sunset at Sonoran Desert National Monument, southwest of the Phoenix area.
Jack Dykinga

Hundreds of saguaros appear to point toward the summit of Ragged Top, a prominent peak at Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson, in morning light.
Gurinder Singh

Beneath Ragged Top, saguaros rise from the shadows at sunset. A mature saguaro can weigh more than 2 tons when fully hydrated.
Norma Jean Gargasz

After a summer monsoon storm, sunset silhouettes mature saguaros, their limbs laden with fruit, in a section of the Sonoran Desert in Pinal County.
Jack Dykinga