Whitewater Draw

This was our second visit to Whitewater Draw outside Bisbee, Arizona where we spend winters. This annual Sandhill Crane migration happens every January and February, and we headed out with a bunch of Bisbee artist friends to see it, some to draw, some top photograph. This beautiful (screech?) owl lives in a structure by the parking lot.

Beautiful day to observe thousands of birds from Siberia via Nebraska.

Our little Bisbee group.

 

Joe's Canyon-Yaqui Trail to Mexico

Last hike of the season, a return to Joe's Canyon Trail, in the Coronado National Monument, with a side trip down the Yaqui Trail to Mexico. No need for a passport to cross over here. What's amazing about Mexico is how free from ugly development it is. It's quite unlike the Arizona desert, pock-marked by the detritus of quashed, ill-conceived 19th- and 20-century aspirations. 

This is what we should be erecting on the border.

Note the laser-straight border cut through the manzanita, bear grass, mesquite, and cacti clear to the horizon.