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Monday, July 25, 2016

Yesterday's Rain

Barrel Cactus buds
Yesterday--late afternoon into early evening--we had quite a rainstorm.  Local meteorologists had predicted a slight chance of precipitation, but we got a lot more than expected; there was flooding in parts of Las Cruces and El Paso.  The result of the storm was lingering high humidity this morning, but the discomfort was moderated by a steady breeze that provided excellent evaporative cooling.  Becca and I did our normally long hike west of the mountain, and we ran into a few Chihuahuan Desert critters.  The baby cottontail pictured here was right off the trail, and Becca looked directly at it before passing by.  I stopped to photograph the cute bunny, and it didn't move a muscle while I stood nearby.  Smart little rabbit.
An early start

A baby Desert Cottontail

An easy area in which to bushwhack

Huh?

Aha!

Black-tailed Jackrabbit

A favorite spot to rest

The observatory atop Tortugas Mountain

Looking this way and . . .

. . . that

Ocotillos and Organs (Mountains, that is:)

Becca just west of Tortugas


2 comments:

Scott said...

We're overrun with rabbits this year--they're everywhere--despite the fact that we've got a huge fox population, too. Go figure. Your bunny is really cute, but I wonder how smart it is for a bunny to just remain motionless; ours do the same thing but they're doing it out on the lawn or adjacent to the driveway. It's probably a highly adaptive behavior in brushy situations, but not necessarily in the 'burbs. The jackrabbit ear image caught me off guard, too, but once you pointed out what the image represented, I went back to review it again and could see it immediately. And, the second last image made it look like Becca was in an ocotillo prison cell!

Dr. K said...

Yes, that image of the ocotillo and the Becca does make it appear that she's inside of a prison cell. It's a nice photo, Packrat.

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