I took this photo about a mile from our condo about two miles from the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. It is a three legged coyote. He or she seemed to be doing okay. Life is good....Read More
On Sunday Nurit and I followed up on a lead from Peter and found the rare and very old third order Saguaro Cactus. It has a branch off the trunk and then a branch off the branch and then finally a bra...Read More
I went hiking, with Peter and Jim, north of Cave Creek, Arizona last Sunday and one of the wonders we came across was an oak tree with oak galls on it. The ones pictured above are about a half inch in...Read More
When asking someone to do a task for the first time you’re expectations should be low even if your explanation is perfect. I took this photo of a “Mountain Unicycle” today in the Phoenix Mountai...Read More
“I got lucky and saw a Desert Tortoise.” Or said another way: “I have hiked in the desert enough so that statistically I was likely to see a Desert Tortoise.”...Read More
In October we bushwhacked over to the structure we’d seen from the trail in September. We were able to confirmed that it is certainly a human made structure. Who made it and when is still an o...Read More
We saw an angry rattlesnake on the Circumference Route at Piestewa a few weeks ago. Be careful out there. The sign was near the bathroom at the trailhead....Read More
Walking down the circumference trail at Piestewa on Sunday September 29 I saw this odd pile of stones. I have walked by this spot at least 100 times in the past two years. The original photo before I ...Read More