When younger, I’d watch the cartoon coyote chase the roadrunner, always failing to catch his meal. I thought of the roadrunner as pray, but now that I’ve spent some time observing them in the wilds of our neighborhood, I know them to be fierce hunters. My picture for 05/29 is a roadrunner dispatching a bird; it just caught against a driveway.
My 11/17/25 is a spent sunflower that hangs on its curved stem, the last of…
My 11/16/25 postcard features a gate standing alone, with no fence on either side, a…
My 11/15/25 postcard features a honeybee we found along San Rafael Avenue as it leans…
My 11/14/25 postcard is a roadrunner perched on a utility box along Marble Avenue, its…
My 11/13/25 postcard features a Red Hesperaloe seed pod, its husk split open like an…
My 11/12/25 postcard is a curve-billed thrasher standing alert on a weather-beaten fence, its amber…