Life in Ajo

The weather has finally turned consistently warm. Low to mid 80's during the day and low 60's at night. Steve actually had to turn the Royal Palms around so our "patio" was on the shady side. It was way too hot sitting outside in the sun. (I know that all you Salt Lake folks are feeling sorry for us). Chris was here for the weekend with his big dog, Ollie, and his new camera. He took the pictures for this post. If they had captions, they would be "Red Tailed Hawk," "Three Finger Rock," and "Trailer Trash." The "trash" (except Big John) are all zonked out from a mountain bike ride earlier in the day. Dogs too.

This morning we were awakened by a Gila woodpecker. He was scolding us from the palo verde tree where his breakfast ought to be, reminding us that the oranges sections wee had placed there were all dried up and he wanted some fresh juicy ones.. Last year, we had three or four of the little guys fighting for the goodies we hung in the tree outside our window. This year, only one so far. He lives in a giant saguaro nearby; you can see the little round hole he's bored out, and he perches on top, proclaiming that this is his territory, or maybe trying to attract a girlfriend.

Oops! The picture files are HUGE and blogger doesn't want to take them. I tried to get them resized, but the website I use for that doesn't seem to be working this morning. I'll try again later.