Happy Mother’s Day to a new grandma, Verna. This is her and Jerry in Palm Desert in February when he was just six months old. We will be out there again come June for another visit. Click on the image to enlarge.
Saguaro Cactus Flowers
This is a saguaro in our neighbor’s yard. It is really busy making spring flowers, some of which are open. The saguaro in question is about five hundred feet east of us near the paved toad. Click on the image to enlarge.
At The Dog Park Today
The Mama and the Daddy took Cabela and me to the dog park today. I sure do love the running around and sniffing stuff.
Alex at Age One and a Half
Our Great Grandson, Alex, posed for this photo that his Mom (our granddaughter, Anna) posted on one of the social media sites. Alex is a year and a half old now and seems to be enjoying the bike ride training wheels and all.
Verna and I have a rough plan to go out there to visit them in Santa Rosa, perhaps this summer and in any case by the time for his second birthday in September.
Desert Camo Cactus Wren
After I went up on the little hill behind our RV drive to reload the bird feeders up there, I hung around the back of the patio with my Canon EOS to see if I could get some photos of birds that come to feed. It took a while, but eventually a cactus wren showed up and took a nut from the trail mix block; the bird retreated to some underbrush to deal with its prize. I captured this image as it posed with the nut in its bill.
Photo details: Canon EOS Rebel SL1, 1/400sec, F7.1, ISO 100, 300mm Telephoto lens.
Lawyer’s Tongue Pollinator
I took some photos of a lot of open flowers on and around our lot on Friday. This photo is of a couple of freshly opened flowers on the lawyer’s tongue (sometimes called cow’s tongue) prickly pear cactus at the west edge of the yard. One entrepreneurial bee, seen on the flower on the right, worked the pollen express to the best of its ability as I snapped away with my camera.
Next week, most of these flowers will have come and gone, leaving the pears behind to likely be pecked at by our bird population. Spring is a wonderful time here in the Sonoran Desert. Click on the image to enlarge.
