Correction

I need to straighten out a lizard ID from my last post.  It's looking like one of the headshots was a Gila Monster, but the full body shot and the other head shot was in fact a Chuckwalla.  I never have heard of a chuckwalla before, but turns out we saw 4 of them the other day.

I want to share a humbling experience I had while we were back in Tucson.
We were riding our bikes on the loop in East Saguaro NP.  There is a pretty good hill on that loop.  It goes on for a ways.  I am trudging  along and this younger guy blows by me.  Thats OK I tell myself, no damage to the ego, he is much younger looking and looks like a very serious cycler.  He goes around the corner and I forget about it and keep on trudging.
Then I see him coming back down the hill, even though its oneway traffic.  What the hell !
A few minutes later here he comes up the hill again and blows by me for the second time.  So now I have been passed on a hill TWICE ......by the same rider.  At least he did it by going down the hill and back up.  If he had kept going around for a second lap and passed me twice, I think I would have dropped my bike into a dumpster somewhere.

Below is a bird picture I took this afternoon in a Riparian Park in Gilbert AZ.  My birding partner says she thinks it's a Abert's Towhee.  Sounds good to me.



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