Feather studies. Attached.
Tag: Glendale
Glide path.
Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona.
Bird on a wire: Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon
♂), at the Glendale Recharge Ponds, Glendale, Arizona. In the center photo the morsel in the bird’s beak is a crayfish plucked from a nearby irrigation canal.
A long-horned bee (probably in the genus Melissodes) on a pricklypear blossom. At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Cactus flower.
Mammatus clouds over Glendale, Arizona.
Male and female jojoba flowers (Simmondsia chinensis), at the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Etymology note: Despite it’s specific name, jojoba is a plant of the desert southwest, and is not remotely Chinese. The botanist who originally assigned scientific epithets for the plant misread a collection label, mistaking a scrawled Calif for China. Jojoba is a transliteration of the O’odham name for the plant: Hohowi.
Nopal bebé.
At the Glendale Main Library Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, Glendale, Arizona.
Sahauro Ranch roses.
You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto
Let’s call the whole thing off .
Dithyramb 