Last Wednesday was my birthday. I decided to take the day off and spend the morning at our Desert Museum. Although I didn’t find many animal photo opps, it was a beautiful morning, a comfortable temperature, and I got some great nature photos. Happy Day 😊 In all things of nature there is something of…
Category: Desert
Harris’s Hawk
On my recent visit to our wetlands park, I saw this Harris’s Hawk up in a tree. I was able to get a few photos of him. He was far away, but I cropped the photo below for a closer view. I almost missed him. A reminder to always look up! In October we visited…
A Photo a Week Challenge: Sunrise
After seeing Nancy’s post here for the Photo A Week Challenge, I got inspired to post a few of my summer morning walk sunrise photos. Every workday during the summer, I got up before sunrise to do my daily walk. I didn’t realize the treat I would be blessed with each day as I watched…
Presenting: Empress Leilia
Also called Leilia hackberry butterfly or desert hackberry. Personally, I think she’s worthy of the title “Empress”. 💛🧡💛🧡💛 Butterflies…flowers that fly and all but sing. ~Robert Frost
Looking for green
That was our primary goal when we set out on our little about-town adventure yesterday. I know if we don’t get more rain soon, the colors and beauty will start to wither away. We started out soon after sunrise. As we headed around town I was amazed at the lush green and many areas of…
peace of life today 