This past week we visited a unique local petting zoo. My niece was focused on the very sweet, very eager goats. She loved them! When I saw Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge for black and white, I decided to edit a few of the strange and unique birds I photographed at the petting zoo. I do…
Category: Nature
Our day in the sun
With family here from out of town, and most everything open now, we took the opportunity to explore our Desert Museum. The weather was just a bit on the warm side, but it was beautiful. Surprising, it was quite busy. I believe that may be due to Spring Break. It did seem a bit surreal…
Beautiful flowers: Baja Spurge
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and…
Grebe vs. …fish?
Yesterday at the wetlands I was watching this little grebe in a water fight with something. I thought it was some kind of water grass or plant. He was really splashing up a storm. The lighting was bad, but I snapped away with my lens zoomed in, trying to figure out what he was up…
“Nature, Art and Culture”
That is what the brochure promises as it promotes one of our local gardens. I have not been there in a very long time, as it was closed much of the past year. They have a stunning outdoor garden bistro where we’ve eaten many times over the past years. Today I decided I would make…
peace of life today 