We had a rather un-spring like day today, but it felt like spring in the flower vase in the little bathroom. I bought these lovely daffodils while grocery shopping on Thursday. How pretty! Click on the image to enlarge.
The Dog Park
Several times a month, we take the dogs to the Wickenburg Dog Park. Yesterday, I snapped this photo of Bob coaxing Beethoven (a.k.a. BayBay) to use the teeter totter. He is OK with going up the ramp, but when it starts to teeter, he jumps off. One of these days he’ll get it. Cabela looks on because there is a treat in store for somebody. Click on the image to enlarge.
Wickenburg Municipal Airport
Damsel and I took the dogs to the dog park today. The dog park is adjacent to Wickenburg Municipal Airport. Damsel took this shot of a Cessna 172(?) on approach for landing today. Click on the image to enlarge.
The airport is a nice little field with no control tower, but a fair amount of traffic. The runway is a bit over 6100 feet and we regularly see small jet traffic. There is flight instruction available as well as 24/7 fuel availability (self serve) with a credit card.
One of these days, Dave, my friend and former student pilot will come down from Sedona to visit and fly into this airport. Maybe I can persuade him to give me a ride in his Beechcraft Bonanza. It’s been a while, but I bet I could still grease that baby onto the runway.
Cactus Hillbilly
Damsel took this photo of me during an excursion to the “unimproved” part of our lot. I was up there taking pictures of some of the cacti. Some of them I want to remove, like the several Christmas cacti, which shed their red berries that can roll down to the RV drive and endanger dogs and humans with their spikes and glochids. Other cacti, like a couple of hedgehogs up there, I would like to transplant to the lower yard where their flowers can be appreciated. Click on the image to enlarge.
Wishful Thinking
In this Gary Varvel cartoon, the President appears to be furloughing Pelosi, Boehner, Reid and McConnell. How I wish that were actually going to happen . . .
Via The Patriot Post.
Javelina
I mentioned that I would publish one of the Javelina pictures in yesterday’s hummingbird post. Here is one javelina of about seven in the herd standing just behind the RV drive. I’m glad that they don’t eat the rosemary ground cover.
The rosemary ground cover is in the foreground with some creosote bushes and cholla cactus behind the critter. A “Christmas cactus” with red berries is on the right. Click on the image to enlarge.
Hummingbird Happy Hour
Last evening, several javelina (collared peccaries) wandered into the back yard, so I grabbed my camera and went out on the RV drive to take some pix of them. Suddenly, a hummingbird came to the feeder just a few feet from where I was standing. It sipped and hovered there for about thirty seconds. I took a bunch of shots of it and this one turned out pretty good. Click on the image to enlarge.
I’ll post photos of the javelina later.