Category: Variegated Fritillary

Categories: Apache Fox Squirrel, Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Elegant Trogon, Penstemon barbatus, Scarlet Penstemon, South Fork, Variegated Fritillary Posted on

Aahh, the Benefits of Exercising…

…in South Fork! Elegant Trogon male (Photos by Narca) For one, you may glimpse an Elegant Trogon descending to the creek bottom for a drink. This male was hover-sipping from a rill of water spilling between boulders, just as he would hover before a tree … Continue readingAahh, the Benefits of Exercising…

Categories: Arizona Sister, Arizona Sycamore, Chiricahua Mountains, Mexican Jay, Red Columbine, Red-naped Sapsucker, sense of place, Silverleaf Oak, South Fork, Variegated Fritillary Posted on

Autumn Comes

What builds, what informs our sense of a place? Fresh from yesterday’s late-season rain, South Fork in the Chiricahua Mountains is entering autumn. Today I hike up the road, now inhabited by winter birds: the chittering small flocks of Chipping Sparrows, kinglets and titmice. The … Continue readingAutumn Comes