A visit to the "Desert Museum"...still having blog problems...

Still having problems manipulating my pictures in blogger tonight, so here is another backwards blog.... We spent the day at the Desert Museum, a great place inside a State Park... we started off with this show in a theatre on the rattlesnake... you do not want to get bit by one....$5,000 for 1 vile of anti-venom in the U.S. and you need on average 20 viles per bite!

This guy is holding a "barn owl"....

They had a humming bird enclosure full of them....

Out of order, but here is the front entrance...

This is the second piece of "moon rock" we have run across in Arizona...

Mesquite tree wood used here...

These deer had an enclosure right next to the Mountain Lions..... cruel.....

This guy was big, not to be messed with...

Mountain Lion.... they had two of them...

Parrots only squawked....

Lots of info on the Saguaro Cactus... (pronounced suh-wah-row) The big ones you see in our pictures can be 100 years old... birds peck holes in them to lay their eggs... doesn't hurt the cactus.

Big horned sheep live out in the mountains here...

This is a river otter...

Here Kitty Kitty..... (Bob Cats)

Bird hole in this saguaro cactus...

Not a clue as to what these are ???????

Harris Hawk that I caught in flight during the show... awesome show....

He can see field mice from up there and then pounce....

Overall a great day at the Museum...

Yesterday the blogger program gave me problems, and they continue tonight.... :-(( Yesterday I wanted to post pictures of the airplane bone yard in Tucson and was denied.... here they are tonight... all kinds of planes just parked in the desert...

Many of you know that I enjoy watching my Toronto Maple Leafs, and after yesterday it will be like watching a whole new team! I hereby officially approve of the two big trades made yesterday with Calgary! Brian Burke has a plan and he is working it! He is not near finished and hopefully we end up with a good team. I will continue to watch them! Enough said... talk to Shawn for his feelings about what is going on with the Calgary Maple Leafs......no, I mean the Calgary Flames! sorry Shawn, and thanks for Dion...

till tomorrow.....