hey! look what just pulled into the driveway!

Bobcats (about as dangerous to humans as feral cats but quite a bit more shy) hunt in huge territories (thousands of acres) which they wander through continuously. It's rare that you see one, let alone 2. The only time they stay put anywhere is when they have kittens to feed. What I suspect in this case is that mom was just returning to her normal wandering hunting lifestyle and junior was, unbeknown to him or her, now enrolled in bobcat school.

In the brief time I was able to see them before they disappeared around a neighbor's house the mom was all about hunting - poking around in all the bushes - and junior was all about being a kitten: batting at leaves, "play attacking" mom and jumping 2 feet straight up in the air when startled by something it stepped on. Except for its paws (which are huge) it looks pretty much like a large house cat with a bobbed tail. Mom, on the other hand, at about 30 pounds looks a little more intimidating.

yellow on orange on blue

oriole

santa catalina mountains

Now that the monsoon season is here and we've had several good rainstorms the mountains have turned green.

moon over catalina mountains at sunset

clouds at sunset

still life: book with glasses

sunset in oro valley (print)

river of light

This is of a metal bench in a shopping mall and was taken in August of 2006. It's a personal favorite of mine.

fault line

Taken back in May of 2007 as part of a project.

d a n c e i s a v e r b

Taken February 25th, 2007. In the early 1960s, artist William Culbert was experimenting with ways of making motion visible in still images -- visual kinetics. I've used one of the methods he developed, slightly modified, in this photograph of a ballerina.

levitation

a rare self-portrait ... (taken back in November of 2008)

shells (one broken)