Animal Stories
Dinosaurs like to color too Another Charlie creation
Each day there are people and things to be colored. Rainbows fade if they are not brightened up. Flowers lose their delicacy in the hot desert sun and always need a make over. Oceans take a slew of work to keep the best blue. White clouds are a joy till they start to...
Deer in Embudo Canyon Albuquerque Foothills
As soon as we say we haven't seen any deer the last several hikes, we spot some. This family unit nips leaves off branches, ears cocked, knowing we were here long before we spotted them. They are large animals with delicate faces, soft lips, long tongues, long thin...
Golf Course ducks UNM South golf course water hole
The UNM south golf course is a championship course that is way too much championship for this golfer. It has ankle deep grass in the rough, tricky greens, deep traps, rolling fairways and a few doglegs that would make a dog blush. You wouldn't want to walk this course...
Bumblebee Lunchtime Backyard dining
If I were a true horticulturist, I would know what this bush in my back yard with the pretty white flowers is called. I would know its scientific and common names. I would know if the plant has medicinal uses, how much water it needs, the proper way to trim it, the...
Cow Talk Sundown
County road 40, cutting away from Colorado State Highway 69, takes me straight to the Alvarado Campground in the nearby Sangre de Cristo mountains - the end of a long driving day from New Mexico. The campground,in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests,is...
Charlie’s Birdhouse Back Yard ready
It takes skill to build a birdhouse. I didn't get a builder's tour but this birdhouse comes with a sturdy shingle roof, spacious front porch, and a back door that can be opened to clean inside. The home's front door is a round hole, big enough for a small sparrow to...
Heckle and Jeckle Talking over the watercooler
https://youtu.be/TZfMGEEjLEU These two questionable birds remind me of cartoon characters us kids watched on black and white television in the 1950's, most often perched on a tree limb talking about crazy humans. They were, as they appear here, angular,...
Lone some George – Galapagos Tortoise Sculpture donated to Fountain Hills Park
Lonesome George is a famous tortoise from the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, many hundreds of miles off the Ecuador coast. He was the last of his species and died in 2012 at the ripe old age of 100, one of many species of living things to become extinct throughout...
Nesting Bird- Video Arizona Home for Sale
In the front courtyard of a vacant home for sale in Fountain Hills, Arizona, a bird has made her nest in a God's flowing locks.. She, quietly, doesn't move as I peek through the house windows into sad, empty rooms where someone used to live. By the time this house is...
Arizona Cows On a dirt road to nowhere
Where country begins is " when you start to see cows. " We are not in prime cow country in this high desert Arizona.There is much better grazing in Texas, and, even better, in Uruguay.The grass on this little piece of our planet is sparse and competes with prickly...
Camel Talk Smoking room, Santo Domingo Airport
Smoking has taken a beating in the United States. Most smoking in America has been banned from public buildings. All tobacco packaging has to contain scientific warnings that tobacco products are not good for your health. Tobacco is taxed at an exorbitant rate....
Hummingbird’s- Video All you have to do is touch one and they start to fly
The materials employed to make these mobile constructions are exquisitely simple - wire, fishing line, paper mache, paint. One touch of one hummingbird and all of them are flying, fearless in space, reminding me of hummingbirds in the Costa Rican Monteverde Rain...
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