Morning Walk

-


My husband and I took the dogs for a long walk this morning. Here are some of the things we saw:
Flowering Cacti


flickrfoto



flickrfoto


flickerfoto

After about 40 minutes we decided to turn around when we saw this:


Gila Monster (Known for their poisonous bite and persistent grip...)
flickrfoto

It was, however, a delightful walk. The first Saturday we've had off together in a long time. The air temp was mid 80's, the sky was slightly overcast, and the breeze was strong enough to keep us from over heating...really nice.

Comments

Rev SS said…
Wow! Pretty (even the Gila Monster)

We're having snow, sleet, and rain here, with lows in the 20's and high's in the 40's!
4/19/2008 8:27 PM
Gannet Girl said…
GREAT walk!!!!
4/19/2008 8:53 PM
Hot Cup Lutheran said…
dear sweet jesus there's no waaaaay i could live anywhere where i'd run into that thing! (the gila)... eeeewwwk!

harvey in the basement is a step up i'd say... *shiver*
4/19/2008 9:02 PM
Terri said…
HC, considering we have been warned to look out for rattle snakes, scorpions, javelina's, bobcats, mountain lions, and poisonous frogs....and thus far this is all we've seen - a gila monster sunning himself in order to get up to speed - not too bad, really...of course I kept a good distance between me and that gila-guy...but it didn't even flinch let alone move -

does this mean you won't come visit and sit by the pool? The backyard is surrounded by a stone fence...so it's pretty safe...
4/19/2008 9:10 PM
revhipchick said…
wow--an amazing walk.

congrats on moving to an incrediably beautiful place, even if littered with some creeepy pests.
4/19/2008 10:32 PM
Processing Counselor said…
Beautiful. Lovely what a place to live...but poisonous Frogs!!!
4/20/2008 12:06 AM
Terri said…
Yes, the poisonous frogs (or some call them toads, so I'm not sure which they are) come out in July during the Monsoon season - so basically no dog walking after it has rained or while there is water on the ground...
4/20/2008 12:44 AM
dust bunny said…
Hmmm....Beauty has its dangers!
Thanks for the pictures. :)
4/20/2008 1:09 AM
Jan said…
What a nice walk! I love the pictures, especially the flowering cacti.
4/20/2008 9:27 AM
Anonymous said…
eeeeeeeewwwwwwwweeeee and YYYYYYUUUUCCCKKKKKK!

and i thought cockroaches were bad...

You are ONE strong woman to live where those things live!
4/20/2008 8:05 PM
Anonymous said…
I guess beauty and danger are always linked :)
4/20/2008 9:41 PM
Hot Cup Lutheran said…
bobcats & mountain lions we have here too... it's things of a more amphibian nature that give me heebeejeebees... pass the wine!!!! *slurp* *gulp*
4/20/2008 10:28 PM
concretegodmother said…
wow, the gila is awesome! what a great capture!
4/21/2008 1:36 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Bleeding-heart: a poem by Mary Oliver

-
Image
I know a bleeding-heart plant that has thrived for sixty years if not more, and has never missed a spring without rising and spreading itself into a grassy bush, with many small red hearts dangling. Don't you think that deserves a little thought? The woman who planted it has been gone for a long time, and everyone who saw it in that time has also died or moved away and so, like so many stories, this one can't get finished properly. Most things that are important, have you noticed, lack a certain neatness. More delicious, anyway is to remember my grandmother's pleasure when the dissolve of winter was over and the green knobs appeared and began to rise, and to cre- ate their many hearts. One would say she was a simple woman, made happy by simple things. I think this was true. And more than once, in my long life, I have wished to be her.
Read more

A Funeral Sermon: Healed by Love

-
Image
There a few elements of life common to all people. Basically they include living, loving, suffering, and dying. All of us experience these aspects of life. The quality of them we may describe as good or not so good. Regardless these elements of life form who we are in deep and profound ways. Gathered here today we celebrate all of these. We celebrate the life of Lynn, wife, mother, sister, daughter, niece, cousin, friend. We come her today to honor all the ways she lived and you knew her in life. We remember her love. We are relieved that her suffering has ended. And we mourn her death. What I know about you all as a family is that you will do this well. Today and in the days ahead you will celebrate Lynn’s life with funny stories and laughter, with tears and sorrow. You will grieve her loss and you will rejoice that you knew her. In life we all suffer times of great sorrow. Our lives are peculiar. For just when we think everything is great, life is wonderful, something happens. An ill
Read more

Luke: A Mary Oliver Poem

-
Image
I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving. poem from "Red Bird" photos from my personal file of my dog and a rose from one of our bushes
Read more