The first snow of winter

 fog blankets the saguaro forest

Winter has hit up north

The lakes of Prescott

Tundra swans

Porcupine in a tree

Where three rivers meet

 The Salt River -riverbed with the Estrella mnts in the background

A bobcat lurks in the underbrush in midday

A common bird with a natural background

Great-tailed grackle

Thanksgiving along Sycamore Creek

KofA with the last palms

 sunrise

 sunrise

sunset

 Last 70 individuals of wild California fan Palm in Arizona

 Abandoned mine shaft

California leaf-nosed bat

A ringtail makes the rounds about camp

creosote flats

dune life

The winter birds have returned

sandhill cranes

 find the greater scaup

Redheads, scaup, and ringnecks