Can't Get Enough Strawberry Pitaya

Whew it was hot this morning, but a steady breeze helped promote good evaporative cooling.  I remember reading about and seeing photos of early settlers in the Southwest hanging wet sheets in front of opened doors to cool their homes via evaporation.  That, no doubt, was the seed from which the modern evaporative cooler grew.  Ran into and talked to a couple of people out there, one a mountain biker who was wearing an Arziona Wildcats t-shirt.  Becca must be getting used to mountain bikes because she didn't seem too concerned about this guy's machine.

This mound is 3 1/2 feet long and 2 1/2 feet tall

Huge mass of Strawberry Pitaya Cactus

Not a Pitaya

Computer-enhanced photo of two Loggerhead Shrikes