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Here in southern Arizona we have what they call “open range”. This means, if you don’t fence your land you are liable to have a 1000 lb. cow staring at you through your office window like this one. Or like the mother and calf below. This pair came almost every day for a month […]
It had been raining pretty hard all August and I hadn’t been out trekking for weeks. So, when the sky finally cleared one early evening I grabbed my camera and headed off in the direction of the old Sopori Ranch, once owned by movie mogul Jack Warner of Warner Brothers fame. Well now that is […]
How small is a hummingbird nest? Pretty durn small! I found these two Anna’s hummingbird fledglings in a potted palm on the veranda. To give you some idea of the size of the nest, I would say it is no larger than a twenty-five cent piece, but certainly smaller than a half dollar. This one […]
This picture is the desktop image I use on my computer. I bought this Echinopsis, possibly a hybrid, soon after I moved from New York to Arizona. I’m pretty sure I picked it up at the Desert Museum, but then again it could have been Walmart. Ed Bartlett from the Tucson Cactus&Succulent Society, was kind […]
