We always love to see the colorful birds that come to our bird feeders. Here are a couple of house finches and one of our local bright red cardinals enjoying the bird seed. Click on the image to enlarge.
October 2012
More Teleprompter Humor
I think this is pretty funny since he probably has never read the Constitution and obviously doesn’t believe in a free America.
Hat tip: The Patriot Post.
The Chief Photographer
I got this photo of Damsel coming back from one of her photographic missions a couple of days ago. She gets a lot of really great photos, many of which are posted here, but the majority go into the archives and maybe on facebook or something. Click on the image to enlarge.
Community Cactus Garden
At the entrance of the unpaved road that leads down to our house, there is a community cactus garden. A sign next to the garden declares that this is Casandro Wash, a Maricopa County flood control project. I love the cacti and I love their spring flowers even more. Click on the image to enlarge.
Pink Oleander Flowers
The house down the road had a bunch of oleander border plants. I was out walking the dogs when I noticed the pink blooms on one of the bushes. I walked back to the house, got my camera and headed back to take this photo of the pretty pink flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.
Acuña Cacti – Endangered Species Or Hype?
According to the Associated Press, the acuña cactus is endangered by – get this – “drought and climate change and could be harmed by illegal immigration and border enforcement efforts.” (Via AZCENTRAL.COM.)
Pima County fact sheet for Acuña Cactus (Echinomastus erectocentrus var. acunensis) lists this species status as:
The Acuña cactus is a candidate species for the Threatened and Endangered list. The plant is protected by the Arizona Native Plant Law, and is protected for international trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The population may be threatened by illegal take and natural causes such as parasitism.
There is reference to neither border enforcement, drought nor climate change by the Pima County fact sheet. They do mention illegal taking of the cacti. I note that the “protection” by laws and international agreements do little to protect anything.
It seems to me that the greenbat and open-borders (so-called) journalists at AP insist on injecting their own guidelines as to what could be causing the population decline. Damsel suggested that illegal aliens cross the border, steal the cacti and put them in little pots for sale to tourists or for export to landscape and garden shops in the US.
The lone comment on the article in AZCENTRAL said “more bull …from the agenda 21 extremist crowd.” I cannot disagree with that.
Local Signage and Liberal Media Bias
One of the local merchants puts up a slogan outside his shop weekly. He must have been thinking about liberal media bias when this one went up:
And then, there is Ramirez’ take on fat-ass Crowley being in the debate on the president’s side . . .
Click on either image to enlarge.