parley view parsnip

parley view parsnip, a photo by angryparsnip on Flickr.

My Monday post about what is going on around my home.

It is hot, so screaming hot in Tucson right now. Today it will be 111
and our low will be 80.
Yesterday when I got home at 9 pm it was 100 in Tucson.
At my home in the foothills it is a few degrees cooler. Thank goodness !

June is our roasting, horrendous, burning hot month.
This is because to start the monsoons your have to have the right
amount of screaming hot days + humidity + the dew point reaching 54
degrees or higher for for three day = monsoons.

To find relief all the animals come out very early in morning and by
the afternoon they are quietly tucked away in the shade.
I have drip irrigation on the plants I do water and when these hot
days come they dig in to the shady moist soil and nap the afternoon
away.

My small citrus grove in the East yard is a magnet for Javelinas,
Bunnies, Quail and a Bobcat.
The bushes on the west side of my home usually has Bunnies and
Quail. Sunday it had one small Baby Bunny and a family of Quail.
Quail are like Switzerland they seem to get along with everyone.
Behind the Bunny are three quail you can only see one and outside of
the photo to the left under another bush was about seven baby Quail
and Mum. In the photo I took the babies looked liked small rocks they
blended in so well and I only saw them because the Mum saw/felt me and
the babies started to move. When one Quail move they all move and as
the day was so hot and I didn't want to disturb them, I moved away and
let them rest and didn't get a better photo.

toasty. . . parsnip
music. . . Summertime Blues, Eddie Cochran