I spotted this little guy making his way across the RV drive today while we were working in the yard. It was less than two inches long, so it must be a juvenile Regal Horned Lizard. They can grow to be up to about 5 inches in length. Click on the image to enlarge.
Of all the birds that come around to the feeders, the male cardinal has the poorest camouflage in our Sonoran desert environment. When he does show up, we ask each other, jokingly, “Where’s Waldo?” The goldfinches feeding on Nyjer seed bags in the foreground aren’t much more subtle with their bright yellow breast feathers. Click on the image to enlarge.
Sunspot 1575 is currently pointing in our direction. It looks like the class of sunspot that can disrupt things in the electrical grid and in communications satellites. Of course, sunspots can be directly traced to periods of warmer and cooler temperatures on Earth. Click on the image to enlarge.
In order to enjoy this glorious Arizona sunset, all I needed to do was to walk out of the patio onto the RV drive where I snapped this colorful photo. Click on the image to enlarge.
I walked down the driveway yesterday to see if there was any mail on the post box. While i peered in to see id there was anything there, a large shadow passed over me. I looked up just in time to see a couple of large Turkey Buzzards swooping down onto the road a hundred feet or so to the east. I took out my little camera from my pocket and walked toward the birds and saw that they were *very* interested in the carcass of a cottontail rabbit on the road.
These guys are really ugly, aren’t they? The rabbit carcass is on the road just to the right of the bird in the shadow. Click on the image to enlarge.
I bought six stems of stargazers yesterday at the flower concession at the supermarket. I am not disappointed in the first of the flowers to emerge last night. Click on the image to enlarge.
I saw dozens of butterflies swarming around some lantana bushes outside of the retirement ranch in town. I got out of the truck and took several photos of them browsing the flowers hoping that I would be able to get one like this. Click on the image to enlarge.