parley view parsnip....

parley view parsnip...., a photo by angryparsnip on Flickr.

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

Early Saturday morning clouds, looking east towards toward the Rincon
Mountains.
I like that you can see the sun through the line of Altocumulus clouds.

I have put my "The Book Of Clouds" by John A. Day out on my desk so I
can really understand what am seeing beyond
"Wow those are fabulous clouds"
Just so you know how much of a geek I am, one of the first sites I
joined after getting a computer of my own and trying to learn how to
use it, while roaming around cyber land was "The Cloud Appreciation
Society" based in the UK. Yep ! I'm a cloud geek.
Living in Arizona how could you not be !

Update on my Friday post...
The rabbits have really adapted to the Sonoran Desert.
The longer ears allow the rabbits to listen for predators while laying
low and still.
They also have larger veins that run through the larger ears to allow
heat to radiate out from them.
We have the cute little Desert Cottontails, and the Antelope and Black-
Tailed Jackrabbit.

In a Southwest story ... The Great Spirit creates the desert and the
creatures who will live there. He has the Jackrabbit guide them to
their new homes and explains their special adaptation which makes them
well suited to the environment. Well the Jackrabbit doesn't listen,
mess every thing up and when the Great Spirit realizes what has
happen, he gives the Jackrabbit an adaptation of his own, bigger ears
so he can listen better.
I use to think this was a Navajo tale but I think it is just a folk
tale ?
There is a book called, "How The Jackrabbit Got His Very Long Ears"
by Heather Irbinskas that is wonderful. I have sent it to many of the
children of family and friends with a cute stuffed animal that goes
with the story.

hopping. . . parsnip
music. . . Dancing In The Street, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas