Another morning of work...

I wouldn't call this just another morning...strange things happen in the desert....i just have a bunch of photos that i have taken at work. Some are on the range, airfield, at the pond. i have tried to mix up wildlife with sunrises and bombing shit so noone gets bored:)

Well, it is of course a bombing range...

...and an air force auxillary field.

I think i can, i think i can.....:)

I LOVE this bug/spider thing i came across in the desert. he looks like he is from the future. I will call him future bug! Hey, off subject-have you seen the movie The Fourth Kind-super trippy you should totally watch it! Heads up-DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT watch the movie BAd Leutenant w/ nik cage.

Adaptation is soooo COOL!

Ahh, the saguaros are in bloom...and everyone knows about it!

These are our desert iguanas. they are everywhere, warming up on the range roads in the morning-driving through them is like running the gauntlet. they are also found our dog walks around the neighborhood.

This guy almost wound up in my pocket and taken home to add to our collection of pets! He was soooo f-n cute wandering around slowly first thing in the morning. i would feel nothing but guilt taking him out of the massive desert he lives and putting him in a glass box-but he'd still be cute and i could look at EVERYDAY!!!

.....he was so cute i found earrings to match him:)

This is an american avocet in breeding plumage-really pretty water birds.

A crescent moon with some cholla on the foremountain makes a great sunrise.

This is when i stopped taking pictures of him--i didnt even realize that he was really lunging at me until i downloaded the pics:p (sorry- a little out of order).

This is the view from an observation point that i had not visited, not bad:) (to get the full effect you should double click on it since it is a panoramic).

this is a Sonoran gopher snake-it was atleast 2.5 inches thick and like 3 feet long. Luckily he was only on the road to try and warm up. i gently moved him-yes i am a snake saver!

this is a collared male Sonoran pronghorn. the problem with these guys is that they are pen bred and raised. in the pen they are fed by a FWS white truck that pulls up and people come out and feed them. we have recognized that the collared males have grown accustomed to this and this is why when we encounter them-like the picture above-they don't go running away at 60mph like the wild animals do.

I hope this finds everyone doing well. i am taking Bilis on a girl's camping trip next weekend and looking forward to showing her how much fun girl's can have..she is totally daddy's girl.

NOW POST MF's!!!