Yet another very hot day here in tucson.

Check out the monster flowers on this cacti:

blooming cacti

The bird on the hummingbird feeder is a oreole. Very pretty bird. Pity I don’t have a super zoom lens. This was taken out my dad’s living room window:

oreole

With all the rain, the ocotillo are all really leafed out. You can see in the background here some petrified wood that my dad got long ago:

ocotoillo