
Road duster.
Carolina grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina), Glendale, Arizona.

Road duster.
Carolina grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina), Glendale, Arizona.

Amaranth again.

Amaranth again.

Amaranth.
Amaranthus palmeri, in Glendale, Arizona. My favorite common name for this plant is carelessweed. The bracts on each floret are tipped with spines. When they dry they are sharp enough to leave a painful scratch if you are careless enough to blunder into them.
Everything in Arizona wants to hurt you.

Amaranth.
Amaranthus palmeri, in Glendale, Arizona. My favorite common name for this plant is carelessweed. The bracts on each floret are tipped with spines. When they dry they are sharp enough to leave a painful scratch if you are careless enough to blunder into them.
Everything in Arizona wants to hurt you.

Breakfast club.
White-faced ibises (Plegadis chihi), black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus), and a lone marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) feeding at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.
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Breakfast club.
White-faced ibises (Plegadis chihi), black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus), and a lone marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) feeding at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.
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Norma Desmond stare.
Closeup of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

Norma Desmond stare.
Closeup of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.

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