Me, day before my new diet starts 🤣:

Black-tailed Prairie dog at the Arizona-Senora Desert Museum, one of the many cute and entertaining residents of the park. ❤️ Keep moving on… Nothing going on here… Black-tailed Prairie Dog Nowhere else can you see this sight: black-tailed prairie dogs in an Arizona grassland. Once numerous over their small range in this state, now they’re…

Thursday’s dose of cuteness 🥰

A reminder that sometimes when you stop to smell the roses, you may just need to take a few bites! In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its’ own fragrance. Each bird its’…

Meet Cruz! ❤️

While enjoying a few days off work, we took the opportunity to visit our local Desert Museum. The weather was ideal, and the animals were more active than I’ve experienced in quite some time. Cruz is their resident mountain lion, and he is a beauty! Rescued in 2013 in San Jose, CA, he was unsuitable…

Death Valley Adventures, Day 2

Day two started out with a beautiful morning. No sunrise adventures, although I kind of wish we had. I know it would have been amazing. We brought our own healthy snacks, so after some food in our room, we headed out to explore. And to our surprise, the hotel greeter bid us a grand farewell…

Death Valley National Park: Day 1 – Arrival at The Oasis!

Yes! There is an oasis in Death Valley, and as we left Joshua Tree National Park, I couldn’t wait to explore. We traveled north along the east side of Death Valley. It was a long and desolate drive but built our anticipation of what lay ahead. And nature always has its own beauty if you…