I took this photo of one of the curve-billed thrasher parents sitting in the nest yesterday. Verna peeked in the nest earlier and saw that the three eggs still had not hatched. The cholla where the bird is sitting is about 20 feet in front of the courtyard where I captured the image. Click to enlarge.
I photographed what appears to be a dove snacking on the fruit of a saguaro up the road. We were on our way home from a short shopping trip as we passed this cactus about a block away from our driveway. Click on the image to enlarge.
We decided to return to Arizona today after a couple of days at the old house. As we drove through Blythe, I took this photo of a date palm orchard next to the interstate. Click on the image to enlarge.
I hiked up to the marker that defines the northeast corner of our property. I took a series of images from the corner panning from south to west. This is the view from the top of our lot.
Our lot is about a half acre. The pad where the house sits is about a third of the total property. We like the isolation from the houses to the north and west. This allows the wildlife to run as they will up here. It’s sort of like an entertainment center that we don’t have to subscribe to! Click on the panoramic thumbnail above to view the full-sized panoramic image.
I guess that the javelina knew that we posted a crossing sign; late this afternoon at around six PM, Beethoven started barking. It turned out that he saw a herd of javelina crossing through our back yard. I ran to get my camera and caught this image of the last of them up on the hill. There were two females, four juveniles and this must be the daddy “cactus rat.”
Yesterday, Verna prepared this sumptuous Italian-style lunch. She made a tasty antipasto salad and penne rigate pasta with turkey marinara sauce and garlic toast. Sje poured a shot of limoncello on the side as a digestivo. Good stuff! Click on the image to enlarge.
