This was the view from the RV drive just after sunset this evening. Today marks the halfway point between winter solstice and spring equinox and that means that we are in the “dead” of winter. Thankfully, that is still quite a mild condition here in our beautiful Arizona home. Click on the image to enlarge.
We had a cloud cover most of the day, with a forecast of a ten percent chance of rain. Well, the rain didn’t come but the chance for a beautiful sunset is one hundred percent. Click on the image to enlarge.
I went up on the hill behind the RV drive today to hang up Verna’s bird feeders. While I was up there, this little white tailed antelope ground squirrel came out of the underbrush and seemed to be begging for a handout. I obliged the little guy and tossed a few seeds his way which he immediately consumed right on the spot. Click on the image to enlarge.
Here is a flashback to three years ago today just after we moved into the new Arizona House which includes a story by, and a video of, Cabela.
Hi – this is Cabela. I am at the new house with my hoomins and Bear. We don’t have a lot of furniture yet but I do have my squeaky toy and a lot of other toys. I just love to play with my toys and I especially like to play with the squeaky toy. I like to make it go squeak and I like to chew on it.
You can watch me squeaking my toy. The Daddy took this movie of me in the new house while I was playing.
For most of January, we have enjoyed warmer daytime temperatures, like in the high 60’s and low 70’s. It is still quite possible for winter to hit here again, but we’re enjoying “faux spring” in the meantime. Some of the cacti on the lot also seem to be responding to the warm trend.
I was up on the hill behind the RV drive hanging the bird feeders that Verna refilled this afternoon. I walked over to inspect some of the buckhorn cholla cacti because I saw some cactus wrens and a couple of curve billed thrashers hanging around them. I thought I might see evidence of a nest or two being built, but all I saw was some new buds starting to appear on the cholla. Verna reminded me later that the cholla on the hill always seem to get flowers sooner than the ones down on the front of the lot. Click on the image to enlarge.
As I was taking out the trash bin this afternoon, I noticed some very bright solar rainbows in the western sky. I snapped a photo of the clouds with the sun behind the saguaro cactus out front. On the left side of the sun was a second sundog, so I photographed that one framed by the neighbor’s mesquite tree. Click on the image to enlarge.
