Future contractors - fun!

 

On the first Saturday of every month Home Depot hosts a free workshop for kids to build, create, and paint something. This project was assembling and painting a wooden truck. Looked like loads of fun!

The site celebrates a birthday!

Hello everyone! I am pleased to announce that today is the site's 6th birthday! For me it's a little hard to believe that I have been posting photos every day (and very often multiple photos in a single day). Here we are - six years and thousands of images of events, people, places, landscapes, things, and plants later. Whew!

Exactly how I feel!

Me, too! How about you?

To FAB from DRAB!

Working with an amazing local artist/contractor I transformed my drab sidewalk to a fab work of art! Replacing the standard 4" x 4" columns with carved and painted "totems" adds so much fun to my side yard - wouldn't you agree?

A distant cousin, perhaps?

Yesterday's posting of the horned lizard probably shares some DNA with this ferocious fellow - a raptor on display at the Botanical Gardens in their "Prehistoric Garden" exhibit. Scary!
Photo courtesy of Sue Dodson.

The Desert's King of Camouflage ~

Horned lizards thrive here in the Sonoran Desert but I have never seen one in its natural habitat. Their camouflage is brilliant! This fellow was in a friend's backyard recently and she quickly got this great photo of him (her?).
Photo courtesy of Sue Dodson.

No, this is NOT a sushi roll!

This is the real thing - a caterpillar (not a caterpillar sushi roll)! Spotted in a Tucson backyard I'd like to put the identification of this beauty out there to any of you who are insect experts.
Photo courtesy of Sue Dodson.