Sometimes the Mama or the Daddy lets me jump up on the patio spa so I can keep watch for the critters that come here. When I see a road runner or a rabbit, I bark at it. When I see a javelina, I REALLY bark at it. Or them.
When I am done watching, I go in the house and someone gives me a treat. Click on me to make me bigger.
Lots of paperwhite flowers blooming in the courtyard. Good sign that warmer temperatures are coming. We might have some showers by the first of the week which the flowers (and all of the desert) will appreciate. Click on the image to enlarge.
I will have photos of daffodils very soon. They have started to appear at the flower concession at the supermarket.
This little bucket which sits under the rain spout by the patio serves to not only collect rain runoff, but to provide a reservoir suitable for our little winged friends to get a drink of water. There generally are no places where water stands for very long in our arid environment, so we’re happy to provide a place for the birds and other critters to get water.
I had a birdbath set up out back for quite a while before the monsoon winds and showers totaled it out. This bucket takes the place of the fragile glass fixture that we still find shards from, while not endangering the critters that take advantage of it.
We have no direct evidence of it, but we suspect that squirrels, roadrunners, bunnies, coyotes, mule deer and other assorted local critters take advantage of the water. Someday, we might get photographic evidence of that and post it here.
Bob carried Cabela and Bay Bay out into the courtyard this evening to watch the setting sun and the colors of the clouds. I took this picture while the dogs were interested in some cottontails or jackrabbits feeding across the road. Click on the image to enlarge.
The new plates came in the mail yesterday and I installed them on the “Roadrunner,” the nickname for our new Class A RV. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is the most colorful sunset of this year! However, there are bound to be a lot more as colorful and more in the coming year. Happy New Year!
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