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My cacti are blooming! I have to take pictures fast because the javelinas will come and eat them or they fade within a day.

So, there is this very prehistoric roadrunner that visits often. I have named her Rhoda. It seems like every. time I see her she is...

A Thanksgiving video

How can you hear God when the world is reeling out of control, and confusion is everywhere? Sometimes when life happens, it is really...

Never have I been more sure of that statement than when I look at a giant saguaro which is truly one of the most amazing creations in the...

So many hatchlings. I think I saw 20 today.

Quail are everywhere right now. New hatchlings every day. They are so very cute and they love the shade of my front porch bushes.

Eddie the Lizard was back today -- huge as ever. My sister assures me he won't bite (much). I kind of like him and now fear my local...

They say Santa Clause is watching, your mother is watching, but I know who is REALLY watching, the desert. I step outside, it's staring...

We can learn a lot about life from the desert plants. Particularly cacti. I have learned this in my new season of living in the Sonoran...

A gigantic lizard visited today. I swear the thing was a baby Komodo dragon. Gigantic. The picture does not do it justice. Not that I...

My Santorita cacti have just started blooming!

Caroline loves doodling while I bend her ear about random stuff. ]

Today was a beautiful spring day in my prayer garden. The lovely fresh air sent me drifting through memories of sunny childhood days...

It is easy to get swept up in fear of the future. Fears about finances or health. Fears about family. There are times when the fear and...

Engraved on the palm of His Hand. I love this scripture of our closeness to God. Our specialness to our Creator. We use our hands every...

This was a favorite dinner time prayer when I was a child. I had nearly forgotten about it, when a student mentioned the prayer as...