Feline Physics

Every time I enter the kitchen, this little nugget appears!

What magic is this?

For the birds

Busy season is over and I’m enjoying backyard bird watching again. A towhee came running down the wall, chased by another, as always. (Eating the mantis aka my spiritual advisor gave em a good power up.)

The starlings are roosting in the saguaro. Their babies chirp as the sun sets.

A woodpecker drops in on the palm tree, just under another starling in it’s nest. Treetop neighbors.

Grasshopper hunting

Sacred Spaces

Datura is flowering on our first hike in the longest time. Hackberry is fruiting abundantly. The weather has returned to us our humanity; we can go outside! Glory be!

Jason knocked on the door of a funnel-web spider and it charged out of its hole at his piece of straw looking for a snack!

Bee fly don’t bother me

Following the bee fly around a Texas sage bush.

Bee fly don’t bother me

Green Mantis

Watering the potted cactus on the front porch and I run into my buddy!

I dash for my camera- the mantis my captive subject. It always freaks me out how their pupils follow me. I have respect for this little creature but I also do NOT want to get landed on! Photo session complete, I decide to let my buddy alone.

I peek out on the porch a couple minutes later and the mantis is POOF- nowhere to be found. I run into him enough, that I know we’ll be seeing each other again soon.