One of life’s pleasures at our Arizona home is viewing the birds and wildlife that live here. To entice more of the many varieties of birds to visit, we put out bird feeders; this is Bob preparing to load a seed block into the block feeder. There is also a bird bell and the two finch feedbags. There is another feedbag in front of the courtyard (not shown in this photo). Click on the image to enlarge.
After the monsoons caused some modest erosion in our RV drive hill last week, I started placing rocks in some of the little rivulets on the slope over the RV drive. Today’s project was to stack rocks in the two major erosion areas under the low spot on the hill.
Image – The Rock Project in 3D. Click to enlarge.
I must have hauled a half-ton of small boulders and rocks from our “quarry” on the west side of the property. Many trips were required to get enough rocks to stack up the depressions in the hillside. I nearly finished the stack on the left center of the image and got about halfway through stacking the right depression. I didn’t run out of time (I’m retired 😉 ) but I did run out of motivation (energy?) at this point. More rocks to come later this week. Or next. Or whenever.
If you don’t have a pair of red-blue or red-cyan 3D glasses laying around then you can see the 2D image here.
I looked up while we were walking the dogs after dinner and saw these beautiful sun rays coming out of a silver-lined cloud. Pretty! Click on the image to enlarge.
We have two separate river rock-lined channels on the west side of the house. There is higher terrain on the northwest side of the property, and when it rains hard, water flows down from the high ground and into the two rock-lined channels.
I took this photo just after a downpour last Sunday. The little wash closest to the house properly carried the runoff down to the road.
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We stopped on our way into our roadway and I got out of the truck to take a photo of our neighbor’s sage bush. The sage is blooming with hundreds of little purple flowers. I’m not sure of the sage variety, but the flowers are very pretty. Click on the image to enlarge.
Remember the Tostadas we had on Sunday? Well, we had the left overs today complete with the tortilla shells. We ate the insides of the tostadas and then discarded the crunched-up shells on the hill by the bird feeders.
This evening, several quail were on the hill pecking away at the tortilla remnants. We think that the two on the left are younger juveniles with an older sibling in the middle. The other two in the photo are adults. Click on the image to enlarge.
