Sunset

So, I've decided that I must take an official hiatus from this blog. I'm going to keep the site active, but I'm not going to post anything new. It's been fun, but my life simply doesn't allow such activities at this time. Anyway, for family members, I'll still try to post things on the family blog, and for non-family members I'm still checking facebook daily.....although more and more it is leaving much to be desired. Anyway, above is a great sunset photo from our back yard.

Canadian Weasles are cute

Sunday Nature Photos

Saxifraga flagillis

Ranunculus pallisii

Castilleja elegans

Water droplet on a Lupinus arcticus leaf

Sunday Nature Photos

Arctic-alpine forget-me-not (I forget the scientific name)

A siksik keeping watch over his domain

Pedicularis capitata

We found this mother spider keeping watch over her eggsac on the underside of a wintergreen leaf

more caribou

Pedicularis sudedica

Papaver macouneii

Early morning eye-candy

A couple of mosquitos

Sunday Nature Photos

Silene acaulis ~ Moss Campion

Empetrum nigrum ~Crowberry

part of a microtine rodent skull

Permafrost ~ about 15 cm (7 inches) below the ground

Caribou - a cow and two yearling calfs

Ptarmigan

Sunday Nature Photos

A King Eider

Peltigera aphthosa - Green dog lichen

Golden plover nest

Mom Golden Plover isn't too happy we are so close.

Sunday Nature Photos

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Quiet Hummer

Sunday Nature Photos

Here are some nature photos from our yard. The first is a baby agave, the second a gecko, and the third some shrub which I haven't yet determined if it is native to here, but is going banana pancakes flowering.

Sunday Nature Photos

It's spring, but the only think I can find in bloom are the Ocatillo. They do make a nice red splash across the desert landscape though.

Sunday Nature Photos

Spring is here. I took these while on a walk with Marge on Friday. The first two are certainly not native to the Chihuahuan Desert, rather exist only at the whim of home owners. The third, Ocotillo, however is exemplary of this desert.

The first Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) flowers of the year.

A sunset in the land of sunsets

Sunday Nature Photos

Here are some photos I took from our back yard. It is still autumn here.

Here is Macey, whom easily makes Marge jealous.