Yay! So glad you got a chance to visit this special place. It was a treat to read your description of the Sonoran’s shapes, textures, and colors. (All the orange stood out to me too!) It does feel unhurried here. It feels similar to Mexico in that way to me. I’ll be checking out a few of those desert authors - thank you!
Your photos are wonderful! They are like being in the desert herself. The colors of the desert are some of my favorite landscape colors. I can look at them forever. And your words...satisfying, image-full and connecting to read. A big "Yay!" is that you read Terri Windling. The Wood Wife is one of my all time favorite books.
Lovely piece--thank you for sharing the magic of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert. I especially loved your video of the hummingbird gathering senita cactus "beard hairs" for her nest! One tiny correction though, ruby-throated hummingbirds are the hummers of the Midwest and eastern US. The one in your video would likely have been a black-chinned hummingbird by her shape--long and slender. They are also the earliest nesting hummers in the Sonoran Desert. (I've written about the desert's hummingbirds in several of my books, including Seasons in the Desert, A Naturalist's Notebook.)
Yay! So glad you got a chance to visit this special place. It was a treat to read your description of the Sonoran’s shapes, textures, and colors. (All the orange stood out to me too!) It does feel unhurried here. It feels similar to Mexico in that way to me. I’ll be checking out a few of those desert authors - thank you!
These are such thrilling scenes! The saguaros, especially. I think your ARE a dryad.
Your photos are wonderful! They are like being in the desert herself. The colors of the desert are some of my favorite landscape colors. I can look at them forever. And your words...satisfying, image-full and connecting to read. A big "Yay!" is that you read Terri Windling. The Wood Wife is one of my all time favorite books.
These are wonderful photos. Thank you for this lovely display of cactus green and earthen orange.
You made everyone who read this want to go to Tucson immediately (especially me). Glorious!
Beautiful description of the desert ecosystem in Tucson.
Lovely piece--thank you for sharing the magic of Tucson and the Sonoran Desert. I especially loved your video of the hummingbird gathering senita cactus "beard hairs" for her nest! One tiny correction though, ruby-throated hummingbirds are the hummers of the Midwest and eastern US. The one in your video would likely have been a black-chinned hummingbird by her shape--long and slender. They are also the earliest nesting hummers in the Sonoran Desert. (I've written about the desert's hummingbirds in several of my books, including Seasons in the Desert, A Naturalist's Notebook.)