Wonderful Weather Wednesday

The weather was lovely today and I can see the beginnings of Spring around the Springs Preserve.

 Desert iguana diva

 

Honey bee enjoying the rosemary flowers

 

 Dafodils are beginning to bloom!

 

Hummingbird flower

 

 Relict leopard frog looking adorable as usual :)

 

I was excited to see the centipede out and about from under its usual rock

 

 Mourning Dove

 

Cold-Blooded Love and Other Things

Here are a few shots as the Springs Preserve gets ready for spring.

 

 Our black collared lizard snuggling with his desert iguana buddy

 

 Relic leopard frog

 

 Desert spiny lizard looking adorable while napping

 

 Don't judge me says the chuckwalla

 

Eucalyptus kruseana tree

 

 I love when the beavertail cactus shows me some love

 

Tiger aloe flowering

Monsoon Season at Springs Preserve

 Gray fox enjoying an overcast day during the hot summer

 

 Desert iguana

 

 I believe this tiny fella is a Mojave blue butterfly

 



 Red yucca seed pod cracked open to show the black seeds inside

 

 Robber fly

 

The velvet ant is actually a wasp