Hummingbirds visit sweet nectar feeder at the gift shop on Sandia Crest, Albuquerque, NM, 2010. Weekly Photo Challenge

Hummingbirds visit sweet nectar feeder at the gift shop on Sandia Crest, Albuquerque, NM, 2010. Weekly Photo Challenge
These are photos of an old shipwreck that's been weathered by the sea off the coast of Aruba. I photographed it when we went for a ride in a tourist submarine in December, 2011. Weekly Photo Challenge
This is a wild juvenile roadrunner, the state bird of New Mexico. For a few weeks this summer, this guy kept following smaller wild birds through the small (5' long x 1' tall) tunnel that my backyard chickens use to move between their coop and run in the backyard and their free range space in …
Over Labor Day weekend 2017 (the 1st weekend in September) we visited Saguaro National Park and stayed in Tucson, AZ. We'd waited until September to take this trip in hopes of avoiding the worst of the summer heat, but Mother Nature had other ideas, so we were out with the cacti and lizards in the 100˚+ …
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As you know if you read our other bog, Metawitches.com, we recently spent a long weekend in Denver seeing the new Frozen musical. We've written about the musical on Metawitches. Here on Desertwitches, I want to write about the rest of the trip. Rather than give a blow-by-blow, I'm just going to talk about some …