Sweating the Small Stuff

We have a Mesquite Tree in front of our house that is doomed, in fact it is already more or less dead. The killer is hanging from all over t...

Birds at the Feeder (Southwestern) Cardinal  This bird, common at our feeder, looks like the common Cardinal seen throughout the east, but i...

I decided I have not been giving enough attention to the ordinary birds at our feeders, so that is what I am going to try to do here.  We ha...

One day recently our son and his family arrived at our house for a visit.  He parked in the open space in our garage and his son (our five-y...

 The Costa's is one of our most spectacular hummingbirds down here in southern Arizona. The problem is, it's practically impossible ...

 We live on a cul-de-sac just off the Catalina Highway. Our acre of fairly untouched desert is on land beginning to rise up towards the 8000...

 Autumn changing into winter is not my favorite time of year. You can scarcely complain about the weather here in southern Arizona now in No...

   I have recently done some blogs about packrats, saying that there is nothing ratty about them, but that  with their big eyes and their bi...

 In the blog I just sent I showed some pictures of a Tarantula Hawk carrying a  paralyzed Tarantula to a spot where it was going to put an e...

Not long after we moved into our house in the desert (this is two or three years ago now), we were sitting in our breakfast room looking out...