One of my favorite things about the location where I live in that with a lot of the pictures I take, you wouldn’t know this is Arizona unless I told you.
This is a pictures of San Pedro River near the Charleston bridge. Sure, if I was to show a much wider view from a drone or something, it’s definitely surrounded by desert. But for a couple hundred yards at least on either side of the river, it’s overgrown grass and lush green cottonwood trees.
This river, and our equally out of place for southern Arizona tree covered mountains are what make this such a great location for wildlife, and especially humming birds.
It also helped that for the first time in 3 years, we were slightly above average here in Sierra Vista for our monsoon rainfall totals. And now with the arrival of cooler fall temperatures, I expect that I’ll find myself down at the river fairly often.
What are some of your favorite things about where you live?
Now for some housekeeping …
I think I’m going to go back on my half week experiment of making my daily posts in Notes instead of here on the newsletter itself. I’m still going to try to post some hopefully interesting stuff in Notes a time or two a day. But there’s really no reason I can’t still do a picture a day post as well. I think this will be a better format for the archive that I can potentially go back and look at later. Because let’s be real, at the moment I’m writing these posts mainly for me. Kind of a public “what were you doing or thinking on this day in time” journal.
Not that they were terribly profound, but in case you missed them, I did promise to embed the daily picture Notes that posted over the past couple of days:
Tuesday September 30th:
Wednesday October 1st:
Thursday October 2nd:
I actually like this embedding function, and I may still use it from time to time to highlight notes (mine and others) that I find interesting. But the main newsletter will again get one picture and story per day.
