A cactus wren returns to its perch high atop a saguaro in the Sonoran desert to find a dove has chosen to occupy its briefly abandoned place. An attempt to motivate the dove to relinquish the saguaro crown and give up the space next to a sitting wren seems to fall on unresponsive feathers.
A sea of yellow petals top the stems of native North American sunflowers flashing their gold in the northern plains of the United States.
Alaskan terrain starts changing into its fall wardrobe while its southern relatives are still going green. When I left from Arizona in the month of August the broad leaves of Oak Creek Canyon were as bright as the summer allows. However as I traversed northward through the Canadian Rockies traces of the upcoming season were making themselves more and more evident, first in the understory then gradually moving up and outward to enliven eager limbs. Some were already a complete burst of color even before the official arrival of Fall according to the calendar. But then the northern climes endure more summer daylight making the short summer more intense anyway. The image shared is a colorful vignette garnered along gentle flats of the Tanana River Valley in eastern Alaska.
A tarantula hawk feeds on a favorite treat: milkweed. While drinking the flower’s nectar, the colorful spider wasp’s legs fit into grooves of the milkweed flower containing pollen. The pollen adheres to the insect’s legs and when it flies to another milkweed, the pollen is transferred and the plant is pollinated, seeds are produced and more milkweed plants grow.
The female of the insect species is noted for searching out tarantulas, stinging them into paralysis and then laying an egg in the living host. The hatchling will feed on parts of the spider until it matures and then departs.
The Sonoran Desert of the Southwest USA and northern Mexico is known as “the wettest desert on earth.” The designation has been applied because of increased potential for rain, due in part to the famous regional summer monsoons. The image here was taken in Mexico’s Sonoran Desert and shows lush vines growing below barren desert mountaintops in Estado Sonora.
I once drove over 300 miles into Australia’s interior simply to see this interesting floral specimen first-hand. Sturt’s Desert Pea (genus: Swainsona) is generally considered a prostrate spreading annual (though like most other things in life it can also belie any standardized characterizations). To some people the lovely little plant looks something like a swarm of terrestrial invaders!
The blossom of a unique flowering succulent identified by the genus name Stapelia. The plant originates in Africa. The appearance invites appreciative inspection, but the flower has a stench that instantly repels many people. I grew this plant from a cutting and in several years witnessed a bloom only two times.
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