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| Early shade break |
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| New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (center right) |
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| Past the Ocotillos |
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| Rain Lily seed pods |
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| Closeup of the pods |
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| Circling before plopping down |
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| Plopped |
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| Shady respite |
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| Not just yet, okay? |
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| I believe this is a Fire Ant with a heavy load |
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| I'm always on ant lookout when Becca lies in the sand |
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| Two young women walking horses on Geothermal Road |
3 comments:
I envy those young women with the horses--must be nice to ride them during the summertime.
I have to conduct my Breeding Bird Survey at the end of May and beginning of June. I try to choose days as pleasant as possible to conduct the surveys, but sometimes I just can't be too choosy because of a long stretch of consistently poor weather. As a result, sometimes I have to go out on days that are very warm and very humid. It takes me about 20 minutes to walk to my site, and I try to get there as quickly as possible because then I can start (and finish) the day's survey as close to sunrise as possible. So, I walk very briskly, during which my core body temperature goes way up and I sweat a lot to try to bring my temperature back down. Once I get to my survey starting point, I stand at the point for ten minutes, then move on to the next survey point, where I again stand for 10 minutes; you get the picture. What I've found is that it usually takes me 30 minutes (3 survey points) to cool back to normal and stop sweating like a pig after I work up a sweat on the walk over. Sounds like your experience today.
I was trying to be more poetic, Scott, but "sweating like a pig" sums it up pretty well.
:)
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