Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

The Day of Bizarre Clouds

The thing is, we do not live In a valley ringed by mountains whose immense heights are shrouded in clouds, except today we do.

Monday, November 07, 2011

Friday, November 04, 2011

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011

Western Rufous-sided Towhee?


I'm unsure that my identification is correct. This bird has been visiting for a week or two. He gets under the little oak tree at the edge of the patio and scratches, scratches, scratches among the leaves to find the acorns. It's rather charming.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Feathers




I gathered these buzzard feathers after the evening of carnage several years ago:
http://atthecabin.blogspot.com/2008/04/carnage-on-hill.html

I found the next day that the feathers led to the area of the fox den that's in the woods at the base of the hill (if you can call the collection of cedars "woods", that is). There is little doubt who was responsible!


Cat for scale





Scrub Jay

Sunday, October 16, 2011

The New Guy


This rather beefy black spider had been hanging around in the bathroom lately; last night he was in this empty flowerpot there (its diameter is about .5 inches / 1.27 cm). I just went to measure the hole in the pot and found the spider now dead.

It's most like a trapdoor spider, Ummidia sp., (looking in my Texas Spiders book), but that's an uncertain identification.

Sunday, October 09, 2011

The Elusive Tarantula Hawk Pollinates


This guy is huge—about two inches long, if not longer. And so beautiful!

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Sunday, October 02, 2011

Remember When It Snowed Back in February? Part IV: Animal Tracks










Skunk (I think)


On the left are the skunk tracks; I don't know what the other, longer tracks on the right are. I thought perhaps rabbit, but it's something walking, not hopping. Maybe fox?




On the patio: DOG

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Sunset: Saturday July 30


So many older photos on my desktop waiting for posting! These are two.

SO LITTLE TIME . . . SO MUCH TO DO.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sunday, September 18, 2011