Baja_Costero said:Thank you for sharing your pictures of these plants. I would be curious to see more saguaro pictures, especially flowers ................
plantmanager said:Here is a Saguaro pic my husband took one evening when we were out in the far north Scottsdale, Arizona desert. The Saguaros in the area were not in great shape, but we loved these inhabitants ................
AgaveGirl1 said:Ewwwwwww! Spiders! About had a stroke just looking at the picture. Have no fear of other bugs, snake, reptiles or other such things. Show me a common house spider and I'll dance like Michael Jackson and screech like a little girl. EWWWWWWWWWW! Spiders!
I'll spare you the gory details of the grisly deaths spiders encounter whenever I see them. All I have to say is thank goodness for a chemical concoction called "Raid"! I've emptied more than my fair share of cans and I could care less about the copious amounts ozone hole creating, cancer inducing and genetically mutational agents I might be breathing ...............
............... I wonder how old this guy might be. He is honestly about the biggest and tallest Saguaro I've ever seen. Let me know what you think ................
plantmanager said:I love your roadrunner, James. How nice that he came around to keep you company and wasn't afraid.
I once found a roadrunner that had been shot in one wing and one foot. It had healed badly and he couldn't fly at all and had to hop around on one foot. I read up on making him food. I'd make little meatballs with ground beef, oatmeal, and lots of vitamins and minerals. When he'd come around I'd toss him a meatball and he'd gobble it up. He soon learned to come when I'd call. After we moved away, our neighbor took care of him for many years until one day he didn't come to eat. :sad ..........
jamesicus said:
I love that story, Karen, and I appreciate your tender-hearted consideration for our desert animals.
James