Tag: Flagstaff

Doubting mariposa lily (Calochortus ambiguus), at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I have exhausted all my resources trying to find the story behind this flower’s unusual common name. If you can help, please contact me. 

Crypsis.

Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), hanging out and blending in, at Elden Pueblo, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I don’t intend for this to be a herp blog, but jeez, Arizona, you’ve sure got a lot of lizards. All of them cry out (so to speak) to be photographed.

I’m somewhat disappointed I haven’t seen any snakes so far, except for the one that flew over my car while I was driving on a back-country road in Yavapai County a few weeks ago, and that snake wasn’t flying so much as it was being carried uncomfortably in the grip of a common black-hawk’s talons, and it didn’t seem to be enjoying the flight at all, based on all of its wriggling and writhing. It was, if possible, having a flight even worse than the last time I flew Continental. I wriggled and writhed on that flight too.

Crypsis.

Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), hanging out and blending in, at Elden Pueblo, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I don’t intend for this to be a herp blog, but jeez, Arizona, you’ve sure got a lot of lizards. All of them cry out (so to speak) to be photographed.

I’m somewhat disappointed I haven’t seen any snakes so far, except for the one that flew over my car while I was driving on a back-country road in Yavapai County a few weeks ago, and that snake wasn’t flying so much as it was being carried uncomfortably in the grip of a common black-hawk’s talons, and it didn’t seem to be enjoying the flight at all, based on all of its wriggling and writhing. It was, if possible, having a flight even worse than the last time I flew Continental. I wriggled and writhed on that flight too.

Dusk view of the Atmospheric Research Observatory at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. The observatory was built in the early 1950s to house the world’s first infrared telescope. It is now the home of the 0.5 meter Barry Lutz telescope.