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Feb. 15th, 2010 09:39 pmA dead coyote was lying next to the road.
After the author lunch, I wandered to the Cave Creek Museum, which was both not open and lovely. It has well-labeled botanical garden, in addition to other outdoor exhibits. Across the fence from rusting mining equipment, birds were going bananas. It was fabulous. There must've been 30 or more mouring doves, a bunch of sparrows, and a very large bushy tree was filled with birds/birdsong I'd never heard before. Beautiful. Loved it.
I really wonder about my memory. I went hiking in the desert and left both hats in the condo: the mesh and neoprene one that can be stuffed into a pocket AND the TravelSmith packable Panama hat that folds flat in a suitcase then springs right back. Yeesh. I hiked with the trail map folded and stuffed under the temple of my glasses to cut glare.
I hiked the Go John trail in Cave Creek. I'm usually very good at walking meditation, getting to the point of just being THERE and observing what's around me, but found it hard to shut up my mind today - very annoying. It took the botanical garden and the birds to get to that.
There's development everywhere, flags, gorgeous desert one minute, a square of bulldozed land next. Very sad. You can visualize that bird conventions used to take place all over the Greater Phoenix area, until their habitat was destroyed. I wish that more places had restricted zoning so it couldn't happen so often.
After the author lunch, I wandered to the Cave Creek Museum, which was both not open and lovely. It has well-labeled botanical garden, in addition to other outdoor exhibits. Across the fence from rusting mining equipment, birds were going bananas. It was fabulous. There must've been 30 or more mouring doves, a bunch of sparrows, and a very large bushy tree was filled with birds/birdsong I'd never heard before. Beautiful. Loved it.
I really wonder about my memory. I went hiking in the desert and left both hats in the condo: the mesh and neoprene one that can be stuffed into a pocket AND the TravelSmith packable Panama hat that folds flat in a suitcase then springs right back. Yeesh. I hiked with the trail map folded and stuffed under the temple of my glasses to cut glare.
I hiked the Go John trail in Cave Creek. I'm usually very good at walking meditation, getting to the point of just being THERE and observing what's around me, but found it hard to shut up my mind today - very annoying. It took the botanical garden and the birds to get to that.
There's development everywhere, flags, gorgeous desert one minute, a square of bulldozed land next. Very sad. You can visualize that bird conventions used to take place all over the Greater Phoenix area, until their habitat was destroyed. I wish that more places had restricted zoning so it couldn't happen so often.