#saguaro
We had a dead #saguaro #cactus in my neighborhood that an anonymous neighbor began decorating. When the cactus disappeared in 2019, local authorities denied involvement. Meanwhile, the cactus couturier began decorating a palo verde tree north of where the former cactus stood. I met this mysterious maestro, and finally learned about the dead cactus' fate. The decorator continues decorating the palo verde, which is now known as the #AhwatukeeGivingTree. #Phoenix https://www.sadareed.com/single-post/disappearing-dead-cactus-mystery-solved
Someone needs to put* googly eyes on this crested saguaro please
* using some kind of saguaro-safe temporary affixation method; photoshopping this image would also be acceptable
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In yesterday’s blog post I shared some very VERY vintage art—my own art from my childhood—plus I celebrated the debut of my new avatar!
https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/very-very-vintage-paula-art
If you subscribe to my free Substack email newsletter you’ll get my art delivered to your email InBox every Thursday! Easy peasy!
#SciArt #SciArtSeptember #art #illustration #Substack #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #cactus #saguaro #reptile #snake #rattlesnake
Ta-Da. Hier rede ich mit @schlingel über Barfußschuhe im Allgemeinen und meine Erfahrungen mit meinen.
Hört alle rein! #Barfußschuhe #SAGUARO
https://compendion.net/arnesgeheimschrank/014/
Ich hab neue Schuhe. Jemand interessiert an einem Bericht über #Barfußschuhe von jemandem, der noch nie welche (an)hatte?
(Das sind übrigens Free Walker Luck Ⅰ Blau-2.0 #SAGUARO Sohle)
In today’s blog post I shared my art of (& a few fun facts about) a Western Banded Gecko hiding in our garage & a Gila Woodpecker nesting in a Saguaro.
https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/a-gecko-a-woodpecker
#SciArt #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Substack #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #cactus #saguaro #Summer #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #woodpecker #reptile #gecko
A Gila Woodpecker has been hanging out in a hole in 1 of our saguaros. These birds often nest in cavities in saguaros—they excavate the holes with their long beaks. Here’s my woodpecker art in my Perpetual Journal.
#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #cactus #saguaro #Summer #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #woodpecker
Printed colour postcard titled "El Sahnaro in Bloom" [sic], and showing a sahuaro or saguaro cactus flowering in the New Mexico desert. Published by Curt Teich, Chicago, C.T. Photochrom, № A-33339, 1913 (and previously in 1912 by Eno & Matteson of San Diego). #Cacti #Cactus #Succulents #Saguaro #CurtTeich #Postcards #Bloomscrolling
Like a saguaro I stand in this barren scape you painted, knowing the constellation must change, given all is transitory. On the penultimate day of drought, I grieve for what we once had. My tears water the grounds and a new, fertile scape is born.
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#vssnature - #saguaro, #rise365 - #barren, #MastoPrompt - #constellation, #brknshards - #given, #vss365 - #penultimate
#WritingCommunity
Episodio de calor extremo q se está desarrollando en #Phoenix, #Arizona, debería servir de advertencia de lo q puede pasar en nuestras comunidades del valle del #Guadalquivir si nos vamos a temperaturas d 45ºC
Los americanos dicen q es como si las puertas del infierno se hubiesen abierto.
Los aparatos de climatización empezaron a fallar y la gente empezó a enfermar y morir:
las cifras apuntan a q 300 personas murieron por la ola de calor en la ciudad
Nada puede escapar a algo así
ni el #Saguaro
#Saguaro #cacti collapsing in #Arizona #ExtremeHeat, scientist says
By Liliana Salgado, July 25, 2023
PHOENIX (Reuters) - "Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over during the state's record streak of extreme heat, a scientist said on Tuesday.
"Summer monsoon rains the cacti rely on have failed to arrive, testing the desert giants' ability to survive in the wild as well as in cities after temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) for 25 days in Phoenix, said Tania Hernandez.
"'These plants are adapted to this heat, but at some point the heat needs to cool down and the water needs to come,' said Hernandez, a research scientist at Phoenix's 140-acre (57-hectare) Desert Botanical Garden, which has over 2/3 of all cactus species, including saguaros which can grow to over 40 feet (12 meters)."
#ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction
Like the peoples who live among them, Saguaro have honed their resilience through centuries of life in the desert, and ecologists are hopeful they can be leaders, and not just victims, in our changing climate.
View “Saguaro,” by Bear Guerra.
https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/saguaro/ #ShiftingLandscapes #Desert #Cacti #Saguaro #Photography
Sonoran spring. This is the Sonoran Desert in western Arizona from March 1984. Unusual winter rains had covered the landscape with new growth, and lots of desert flowers, including the blossoms on the ocotillo to the left.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #hikingadventures #nature #Arizona #spring #March #desert #cactus #desertflowers #desertspring #springtime #SonoranDesert #saguaro
Happy June! Here’s the first art I created for my Tucson Yard Journal series: June, which is hot & dry but we still see lots of bird, mammal, plant & insect activity.
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #nature #cactus #saguaro #succulent #agave #seedpod #wildflower #Summer #insect #cicada #bird #birds #birding #coyote
“The saguaro can be understood as free of the earth, like human beings…” — Jane H. Hill and Ofelia Zepeda
View “Saguaro,” by Bear Guerra.
https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/saguaro/
#ShiftingLandscapes #Cacti #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
In the Sonoran Desert, Saguaro have long been treated as family and respected members of the community. Today, this desert keystone species is threatened. Read this week’s newsletter featuring Bear Guerra’s portraits of these rooted beings. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/portraits-of-saguaro-in-the-sonoran-desert #ShiftingLandscapes #Cacti #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
In this week’s photo essay, photographer Bear Guerra illuminates the enduring personhood and presence of the Saguaro, or Ha:san, long revered by the O’odham peoples of the Sonoran Desert.
View “Saguaro,” by Bear Guerra.
https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/saguaro/ #ShiftingLandscapes #Cacti #SonoranDesert #Saguaro
Candelabra
Saguara del Norte, AZ
A majestic saguaro stands sentinel on a rocky slope before a sheer rock wall.
#Saguaro 🌵 are an important part of the #biotic community in the #Sonoran #Desert 🏜️. They are a vital part of the diet of #Indigenous people in the area.
Due to #climate #change-related shifts in #weather, the mature individuals are no longer reproducing. They are dying without being replaced.
The #IUCN currently lists them as "least concern" but also "declining." The most recent assessment is from 2017.
See:
🔗 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10042023/saguaro-restoration-climate-change/
🔗 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/152495/121476885
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-014-0326-y
In the US, today is National Junior Ranger Day! I love 🥰 the National Park Service Junior Ranger Program & have earned 7 Junior Ranger badges including a Virtual Junior Ranger badge from Yosemite! The Junior Ranger program offers in-person as well as online activities for Junior Rangers of all ages! https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/national-junior-ranger-day.htm
#nature #NationalPark #JuniorRanger #CarlsbadCaverns #Sequoia #KingsCanyon #KenaiFjords #Saguaro #Denali #Pinnacles #Yosemite
Snow in Tucson! ❄️ 🌵 This morning we woke to a snowy landscape here in Tucson. I’ve seen snow at our house just a handful of times in 20+ years - and never this much!
#Snow #Winter #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #Cactus #PricklyPear #Saguaro #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Photography #Outdoors
Snow on creosote and Palo Verde…
Snow on creosote and Palo Verde…
Snow on creosote and Palo Verde…
New lens, who dis?
#photography #sunset #Galiuro #saguaro #arizona #desert #mountains #cactus #wilderness
A Gila #Woodpecker briefly perched outside its #Saguaro cactus home.
Six years of growing Saguaro cacti from seeds; Sonoran Desert
#cactus #cacti #WeekendDistractions #saguaro #SonoranDesert
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e70vgSxLRA0&feature=share
Good morning, from the desert ☀️☕️🌵💜🙏
#NikkiNova #morning #desert #Arizona #Southwest #saguaro #cactus
@bjenquist My contribution to the #saguaro photo collection is an astrophotography photo of a saguaro with Orion behind and a bright moon lighting up the top of saguaro. This was taken while camping in Organ Pipe National Monument earlier this year! #SonoranDesert #Tucson #OrganPipe
There is an urgent need to post more #saguaro photos on #mastodon because… well, the #sonorandesert is spectacular #Tucson
hot air saguaro...