Lots of black phoebes along Rio Grande in Big Bend, Texas

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Lots of black phoebes along Rio Grande in Big Bend, Texas

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That’s another area we’ve got to get to someday.  It sounds like an amazing place.

From our visit To Saguaro National Park:

That cactus is doing the shimmy!
Miles from its home in Kissimmee
It’s looking so wiggly
It makes me all giggly
This cactus whose first name is Timmy

          Jen Grumby

From a walk through downtown Tucson:

Ten purple creatures on bikes! / None wearing heels with spikes / They ride past the low moon / The ape playing bassoon/ And the elephant shouting, "Oh, Yikes!"

          Jen Grumby

Our host’s dog from our home in Tucson brought us our first haiku!

A pooch on the porch
Asks are my ears polygons
Where are your glasses

          Suzanne Gibson

From a hike on the Cactus Forest Trail:

Lady of Crested Saguaro is she
With her cactus friend doing tai chi
They both look so agile
In the desert so fragile
A scene that is really artsy*!  (*pronounced art-SEE)

         By Jen Grumby

On sighting a remote crested saguaro:

The eye/brain team: so amazing ..
A neural connection worth praising!
Crested saguaro number four
Missed by most, if not more
But Scott's got a keen eye for gazing.

          Jen Grumby

In response to our ride through the saguaro forest east of Gates Pass:

I could ride that road for hours with no rest,

It's such an awesome saguaro fo-rest,

I'd give one a hug, Without a shrug,

And a cactus hug, my friend, is no jest.

           Gregory Garceau

In response to falling on a cholla in the Mule Mountains:

Mr. Cholla has a story with a simple plot.

He sits by a trail and sees hikers a lot,

Most of them are kind

So he doesn't mind,

Until the day he got attacked by a Scott.

          Gregory Garceau