Las Aventuras

I'm still here.  I'm still alive.  Just took a break from Las Aventuras for awhile.
There's a sharper edge.  A sense of direction.  A sense of hope.  It's the final release of dead weight mentally and physically.
My tolerance is very limited.  In some ways, I feel like a roadrunner.  Like the roadrunner, one moment I'm happy and content to look around the area. The next, I'm a deadly assassin. These are my emotions. After the election, I thought they'd go away...

This year changed the way most of us birded.  Goals were changed.  Plans were made, remade and cancelled.  Only the safest plans were the ones that could be made closer to home.
The silver linings of 2020?  Watching birds from home became a thing.  Lots of new people joined the birding club and became addicted to this beautiful adventure. And I decided to focus my energy on new birds for Pima County, and in some cases, for the...

The world is a crazy place right now. It seems to test us more as we close in on the final stretches of the pandemic. And each of us struggles in our own way to try and figure it all out.  While there is hope, there is also much frustration.
Over the past several weeks, I just gave up writing.  There has been so much happening.  We lost 2 of our older cats to something that resembled feline covid but gained two new members and were able to save our other 2 older girls. We can't shake that...

Black-throated Blue Warbler
This year has brought us joy and great sadness.  Throughout it all, many of us have found nature as an escape.
Little gems show up in our neighborhoods nearby to get us excited like a rare Canada Warbler or Black-throated Blue Warbler....