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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Let's Ruin Everybody's Outing

Can you see the Cactus Wren?
Unfortunately some off-roaders  (aka "idiots") were on the west side of Tortugas Mountain this morning in their all-terrain vehicle revving their internal combustion engine, screaming, kicking up tsunami clouds of dust and just making a general nuisance of themselves as they rocketed around the dirt roads.  They also ventured up the very steep lineman access road where no off-roaders are supposed to go.  I'm hoping to read in tomorrow's paper that they got stuck up there and had to have search-and-rescue get them down.
Two Cactus Wrens playing in a Torrey Yucca

Heckle and Jeckle

You go your way

I'll go mine

A hot Chihuahuan Desert

Break in the shade of a bush

Making a racket and kicking up dust

An ATV going where it's not supposed to go

4 comments:

Dr. K said...

Great photos of the cactus wrens playing in the yucca. But too bad about the noisy invaders.

JACQUELINE said...

"It takes all types to make a world," is so not true. The world would be a better place if some "types" were not here to ruin it.

It would be lovely if these "types" volunteered for space travel and landed somewhere else - hopefully, not where they could do any harm.

packrat said...

Jacqui I have to say that i agree with you 100%. I'm thinking specifically about the Russian-backed separatists who shot MH17 out of the sky killing 298 people. I read a letter from the parents of three beautiful young children who were murdered on that flight, and I don't know when I've felt this discouraged about the human species.

Scott said...

Though it's unkind to think such things, I often wish ATV riders abusing the privilege (like these guys) would hit a deep hole, get thrown from their vehicle, and break their necks.

We get an annual email note from the HOA at our Colorado place reminding residents that ATVs must be driven only on roads, only at posted speeds, and should avoid kicking up dust and causing ruts. We've never seen an ATV on our roads there, but it must happen--I just hope it's not too frequent.

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