Sweating the Small Stuff

Once or twice a year Black-Tail or "Mule" deer invade our yard. We don't know where they are coming from or where they are goi...

 Finally they had given us permission to return to Agua Caliente Park after the fire.  We all began arriving at the parking area early and a...

 Agua Caliente, the park, is noted for its palm trees, many of them massive, some half-a-century old. Without them, the personality of the p...

 I recently wrote a blog about Agua Caliente Park, which we visit almost every morning. In  my blog I tried to list the reasons we are so lo...

Our Monsoon season is coming to an end and, as with many other places, it has been pretty disappointing.  The sky goes black to the east of ...

 We live just off the Catalina Highway. We can get on the highway in minutes, and be heading up the winding road some 8000 feet to the top o...

 We usually see the Black-headed Grosbeak in the mountains, with only an occasional visitor to our yard, But some years they come down here ...

    Once a year since we have lived here, we have looked outside and been startled to see from two to ten Black-tailed (or Mule) deer wander...

  When we moved here to Tucson a couple of years ago I began photographing the wonderful wildlife around us, the bobcats and wolf-sized coyo...

 Meal worms are costing us a fortune, but they are our magic potion to tame the smaller animals on our porch. A creature comes up on our por...