Verna and I spent part of the afternoon in attendance of the Wickenburg 65th Annual Gold Rush Days Classic Car Show. There were dozens of classics parked on Frontier Street. In fact, there were more classics than last year. The current venue was packed. We think that they should extend the show to one more block, but I guess that’s up to the powers that be.
Most of the photo credits go to Verna with a few of mine mixed in. Click on the slideshow images to advance.
Sometimes I play with my squeaky toys. This one is my squeaky gator toy. Sometimes the Daddy will throw them for me and I will chase them down and play keep away with the Daddy. Sometimes I get tired of playing and lay down on the sofa. The Mama covers me up with my blankie and I take a nap.
Some white puffy clouds floated across the sky this afternoon. I captured this image of the sun’s rays as one of the clouds passed in front of it. Click on the image to enlarge.
I jumped up on the Mama’s office chair. She covered me up so I could be all cozy and maybe take a nap. Click on me to make me big.
There are a pair of curve billed thrashers who are expressing an interest in nesting in our big saguaro. When the crew installed the cactus in August, it had a couple of abandoned bird nests in the arms. Today, the thrasher was on the cactus singing a different tune. Instead of its usual wit-WEET call, it was making a warbling, squeaky, hurried song, which we think is a mating call.
We had thrasher chicks last spring and summer in a nest in a nearby cholla cactus. It was low enough that we could walk over to it and take photos with eggs and then chicks, in the nest. The saguaro is a different proposition; this nest is eight feet above the ground, so we won’t be able to get a camera up there. Click on the image to enlarge
Last week, I posted about four red trumpets after all the flowers opened on the first flower stalk of my red amaryllis. Now, the second stalk flowers are opening. They’re just as red and just as pretty. Click on the image to enlarge.
