I took this photo of a desert bloom in 1990, in western Libya, near the scene of one of our Land Rover crashes.
Not only am I not an ornithologist, I'm not a botanist either. Consequently I can't provide a Latin name, nor even an English or Libyan name to to this plant.
Obviously there's moisture here because of all the shrubs. I guess the sand that gets blown around the shrubs acts like a mulch and traps moisture around the roots.
In the lower left corner of the photo, a beetle goes about its normal routine. Below the beetle is a hole that seemed to serve as its home.
I think the Calanscio sand Sea region on the eastern side of the country was the most desolate with the least amount of wildlife, not even flies!
Elsewhere, if you just stopped and observed for a while, you'd notice beetles and other creatures eking out an existence.
I think in all the almost five years I was there I only saw half-a-dozen scorpions in total. But then, even though I had trained as a geologist, I didn't go around picking up rocks. After all, there might have been a scorpion lurking beneath!
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