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Monday, August 22, 2011

Moon Day

Relaxing in the dirt
Nobody was on the mountain when we did our hike this morning.  Fortunately there was a nice breeze to ameliorate the heat and humidity.  The most notable thing we saw was a 5"-long Horned Lizard whose outstanding camouflage you can see in the posted photo.  He stayed perfectly still while I photographed him with a macro lens setting; but when Becca approached he took off.
Senna in bloom


We're talking camouflage here

Buggy whips (aka Ocotillos)

2 comments:

Caroline said...

Great picture of the horned lizard. Or as we used to a call them, horny toads.

Dr. K said...

I didn't know that horny toads and horned lizards were the same. That makes sense.

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