Category Archives: Nature

Neighborhood Raccoons

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The Local Turkeys

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These three hens wander around my neighborhood and loiter around the businesses.

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Snow Cap

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Mono Lake

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This has always looked otherworldly to me.

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Texas Spiny Lizard

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It’s like a bluebelly on steroids.  This was a female Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus).

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Bluebelly Lizard

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The Western Fence Swift, Sceloporus occidentalis.

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Mr. Armadillo of McKinney, Texas

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These are truly strange creatures.

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Sonora Desert: Where is Chuckwalla?

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Somewhere among all these rocks and boulders is at least one big old chuckwalla lizard.

I saw it when I took the picture.  But hell if I can find it now, in the picture.

Forget “Where is Waldo?” … this is the game “Where is Chuckwalla?”

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Pond Monster

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This was some sort of turtle in a tiny neighborhood pond in McKinney, Texas.  The thing was huge.

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Mr. Toad of McKinney

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I’d won a little point and shoot digital camera in a photo contest, about the size of a pack of playing cards, and it had a really good macro setting.

I stumbled upon this little guy on my way to the mailbox one evening.

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