Thanks Alovely. The name of the tree is Foothill Palo Verde.

Thanks Doug and Dud. Doug, I am doing more of that lately than I was doing when I took this photo. I use Photoshop to adjust the levels and then I usually increase the saturation a bit. Also, I sharpen the photo a little. Most of this is done to compensate for the camera I am using. It just doesn't seem to pick up the available colors as much as I'd like. Of course, one can overdo those processes too much. I try to be restrained in my tinkering.

A lovely scene, try dropping the levels a bit and increasing the contrast slightly to pop the colors out. Well done.

penstemons, yes, we get those here, the hummers love the red variety.

Was just looking at the photo again, and it would look great on the wall I bet! great shot.

Thanks, Alandra and Jim. The flowers are Whipple beardtongues. Part of the penstemon family. Everything here looks so great this year because of all the rain we had earlier.

great shot, Gary, really pretty and great composition, and contrast, with the nice coloured tree branches and the lovely coloured flowers below. Are they foxgloves? probably not, but I don't know about desert flowers.