Oleander. Don’t taste it.

Blurred / Blur / Blurry / Blurrage

Hawaiian caper(Capparis sandwichiana)and a honeybee. Puako, HI

The brittlebush is blooming

Sandstone and piñon.

Sunrise this morning. Tucson, AZ

Coronet Restaurant in Tucson AZ

I bought this crown-of-thorns from the cheap bin at Tohono Chul last summer and it’s started flowering. They are the tiniest things, smaller than a pencil eraser. I love it when I don’t kill plants.

Aloe flowers

Vermillion flycatcher eating a dragonfly 🪶 #birdoftheday

Santorini, Greece

Santorini, Greece

Houseleek flowers

Vermillion flycatcher on a barbed-wire fence. 🪶 #birdoftheday

Red house finch 🪶

This is my younger brother on a Honda ATC 200X. In Mexico, 1986 I think. We’d been swimming in that estuary in the background at high tide and were taking a break riding wheelies up the sand dunes. Fun times. The lack of safety gear was par for the course, don’t judge.

Brittlebush flowers and a saguaro in Tucson, AZ

Number 27

This is Trudy. She’s a long-haired mini dachshund.

A lesser goldfinch couple cleaning up the basil that has gone to seed. I was going to pull it out to clean things up but I’ll leave it for them for another week i think. 🪶

More night mode photos, shot at 9:30 PM in Tucson. The iPhone does really well in low light but you have to be really still. Extremely dark conditions can produce cool lofi effects too. There’s a lot of moonlight tonight too.

Lofi night mode photo

There’s a ring around the moon

Sometimes you get a good view out the airplane window. Mt. Rainier I think, flying into SeaTac

Ok, I’m not running a dog channel but I have a new puppy and she is seriously cracking me up. She is chasing her leash.

Package secured.

It rained all day. Well most of the day. It snowed the last 2 hours. But im here. 11 hours of Rachel being accompanied by Sirius XM 🤷

It’s been raining for the last 2 and a half hours.

Hi a #geology question: was this talus / scree field formed by flowing water or by some other process? Why is it just there? This is the entry point into Dark Canyon on the Sundance Trail.

Loggerhead shrike. Buenos Aires National Wildlife Preserve in southern Arizona 🪶

A huge thanks to the guys at Chicago Music on 6th Ave in Tucson for giving my guitar some much needed love, various fixes and a new set of strings.

Grey Rock west of Fort Collins, Colorado

Galcher Lustwerk on #Ghostly vinyl

Makaiwa Bay, Mauna Lani, Hawaii. This noisy photo was taken with an iPhone 4. This was about the time that people started saying that there was no need to carry a DSLR around because quality on the iPhone was good enough. People are still saying that and it’s still not quite true.

#Buchla space music #synthsky

Bridled titmouse eating small insects in a mesquite tree. 🪶

Finally! The drive to Madera Canyon south of Tucson paid off today. My first Coppery-tailed trogan. Formerly referred to as the Elegant Trogan here in AZ. 🪶

Waves on the breakwater at the Kona Inn. Kona, Hawaii.

Flowers

Yellow-eyed junco 🪶

This pair of #Vans speaks to me. I thought they were appropriate for southern Arizona.

Cholla cactus in morning sun

Sunny skies and the Dr’s tube of Effudex has been keeping me inside. Binge watching Yellowjackets has not been time used wisely, sorry to report. Season 3 has a talking llama. It’s giving “What if Gilligan’s Island had been scored with early music from The Cult”

Average vet bill for the state that I lived in: $300 Average vet bill in Arizona: (excluding the $13,000 bill from a 2-night stay in an emergency hospital in Tucson) $1,300 It’s hard to find a vet that isn’t owned by private equity.

Flowering globe cactus.

Good morning Tucson!

I think that taking photos of agave is kind of cheating or maybe a shortcut. They are naturally interesting. They have natural color variation, a variety of textures, they invoke an emotional / fear response and they have very interesting natural patterns. They can be as painful as they appear.

Winter nights and holiday lights in Tucson.

A pair of white-crowned sparrows eating berries. 🪶

Some of the ocotillo are still blooming. There was a hummingbird feeding but it had flown off by the time I got my camera ready.