May 1st is Nurit’s birthday and is roughly the beginning of Summer in Phoenix. The Saguaros begin to bloom which is a wonderful event and this year the Palo Verde trees are covered with yellow f...Read More
This old Saguaro has had a tough life. But it has made it to the third order. We found it in the Maricopa Mountains Wilderness near the trailhead for the Brittlebrush Trail. Maybe the third order Sagu...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
Last year it was April 29 when I took the pictures for the Saguaro Flower Festival 2018. This year it was May 4. I was worried that the saguaros were not going to bloom this year but then suddenly out...Read More
The riot of pollinator activity around the Saguaro bloom was a wonderful surprise for me in the last few weeks. I saw bees, other bugs, Hummingbirds and Threshers. It make you wonder what they all liv...Read More
“Old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.” Author Unknown The photo is of the famous Crested Saguaro at the Desert Botanical Garden in...Read More
“The Apple of My Eye” was originally used in English and perhaps Hebrew to refer to the pupil of the eye. Sometime in the late middle ages it began to mean something or someone that one va...Read More