Catch-up time again

I decided not to do the Pine Canyon hike for a couple of days since my feet still hurt from the climb up my mountain in the wrong shoes day before yesterday. And since the weather's so brutally hot, and since I want to spend maximum time at Pine Canyon because it's such a long ways there, I made myself postpone it. Hopefully, in two days I'll do it.

Meanwhile I'm in town organizing photos from recent days. My sister Ann was delighted to have her Century Plant (Agave havardiana) prepare to bloom. And it hasn't even been a century since she planted it. Here's a photo she proudly took of it.

The pride was followed by the fall a day or so later, unfortunately. Here we are yesterday trying to prop it up a little. She's hoping it'll go ahead and finish blooming in it's prone state.

And yesterday I took this photo of a lovely male Two-tailed Swallowtail at CMO.

And even though I changed my plans for today, Mac kept with his. When I got up this morning and headed down to the oasis, past the guesthouse, he had already left on his trip home. All I saw was this rainbow he left for me. No rain though.