Cactus Cutie on NFFF

 

Welcome to the wonderful Friday each month where Nature Friday comes together with YAM Aunty's FFF!!  Make sure to visit YAM Aunty HERE to get the Rulez and join the FFF fun!! 

 

Today, we are looking at some of the Cacti found in the ABQ Botanical Gardens! It is amazing how well most cactus grow here in the dry high desert climate!

Although I do know better than to touch them, I think the barrel cactus is pretty cool looking....

Here is one of the bigger barrel cacti

Mama likes this cool cactus that is growing out of control. 

These specialized cacti are kept in a big terrarium so they can keep them warm in the wintertime.

We see these everywhere when we drive through Arizona, they are the Seguaro Cacti, usually they have "arms" sticking out.  

They also have this cool looking flower cactus...well, Mama says it's a succulent.

This is a Rosa de Pedra, or Rose of Stone, succulent plant.

It's such a pretty color, don't you think?? I think this might be my most favorite cactus, flower, succulent plant!

Thanks for joining us for a look at some of the Cacti found at the ABQ Botanical Garden!!

We hope all our friends get out and see some nature this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful for a Fun Weekend with Nanny K!

Today we want to say how thankful we are 

that the pawrents found us a new, pawesome nanny to play with while they go away. As we mentioned last week, Nanny K came for a sleepover while the pawrents went camping last weekend. What fun we had! First and foremost, Nanny K took as many photos of us as Mama does (Nanny K took all the photos in this post) and she sent them over to Mama and Daddy so they knew we were doing ok!

There was a lot of playing. Here I, Sunny, am having a blast playing tuggy with Nanny K.

Since it was so nice outside, we spent time playing while Nanny K. watched.

We made sure to check on her and make sure she was enjoying her outside time too!

Of course there was snuggle time too, here I am getting snuggles.

[Just a note that I was MOSTLY well behaved while the pawrents were gone, but I did get a bit bossy with Rosy and had to go to my room for a bit. Mama was very pleased that Nanny K handled the situation so well. ]

We think we are going to be just fine with Nanny K while the pawrents head over the big pond to Italy. 

She may be the best sitter we have had so far!!

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop

Flicker-tude

 

Before Fatty took over Birdy Circus, the Northern Flickers had become a bit territorial and thought they ran the circus. 

Take a look at some of the silly antics TC caught: 

We always thought they Flickers were skittish...but it seems like, all this time, they have really been bossing every other bird around.

Just another reason why I think birds are silly! 

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

Happiness is the Start of....

Squirrel Hunting Season!!

That's right, after taking the Winter off, Fatty and his friends need to know my backyard is of limits!  I am lucky to have TC to help me with Squirrel Surveillance!

Here is just a snippet of what Fatty has been up to: 

To protect the birds, deter the bunnies and starve

hopefully not give Fatty any reason to stay, Mama says the Birdy Circus will be closing for the season. Of course, TC took a LOT of footage so there will be videos galore!

I will happily do whatever it takes to keep Fatty out of our backyard!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

Sunny Bug Aaaws

 

Mama, what do you mean 

"Smile"? 

Modeling is serious work!

We're also joining Comedy Plus for the 

Awww Monday Blog Hop!

Nature Feline Friday

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. Today, I have an interesting backyard report.

While sniffing around the Birdy Circus earlier this week, I caught fumes of a few different critters! Bunnies, of course, they like to munch on the feed block and, as Sunny mentioned last week, Fatty Squirrel has certainly left his smell everywhere.

But I am pretty sure this scent is of the feline persuasion!

To get to the bottom of things, Mama and I turned to TC,

Look what we saw:

The nose knows....especially if it's a kitty!! 

We hope all our fur-iends get to see, or smell, some nature this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

New Nanny Thankfuls

As you might remember from our Monday post, Sunny and I were told we weren't going to be able to accompany the pawrents on Arcee's maiden voyage tomorrow. Yes, initially I was mad enough to want to pee on Mama's shoes. BUT, when she sat me down to tell me why I decided it was probably a good reason.

You see the pawrents are celebrating their 25th Wedding anniversary this year. To celebrate, we gave them permission to go fly over the big pond and visit someplace called Italy FOR TWO WEEKS this May (yes, we are very nice puppies). They had our regular Nanny J all lined up to come stay with us. Well, Nanny J called last week and she is MOVING OUT OF STATE! We wish her the best of luck BUT, needlesss to say, the pawrents were freaking out!

Anyways....

After many calls, this week the pawrents are VERY thankful they found a new Nanny (Nanny K) to stay with us. So this weekend, while the pawrents are off in ArCee, Nanny K. will be staying with us to learn our routine and get to know us. This way if she has any questions, Mama and Daddy will only be 30 miles away and not on the other side of the pond.

I am thankful I will get to be be training Nanny K that little black Lhasa Apsos need LOTS of treats and snuggles! 

Not too bad of a trade-off, right??

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop

 

Smart Feeder Birds Gone Wild

 

We don't know if it's the warmer weather or maybe it's Birdy Spring Break, but SF Cam has caught snippets of some cray-cray birdies lately! 

Here, see for yourself:

Aren't you glad you have such a calm, collected lhasa like me around Mama??

Umm Mama?? Why are you laughing???

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

 

"May the dreams you hold dearest be those which come true.

And the kindness you spread keep returning to you!"

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

Aaaawwwww, Mama!

 

Last Friday, while we were helping Mama get ArCee ready for this camping season, Mama sat us down and told us she had to tell us something we might not like too much. 

It seems we are NOT going with them for their first camping trip of the season.....

This pretty much summed up our reactions! 

I, Rosy, was appalled that I couldn't go,  while Sunny said she was good with it.  Mama said she was going to be real busy being the Master of all the Wagons and there is some other "fun" reason we can't go that she'll be back to tell you about on Thursday!

We're also joining Comedy Plus for the 

Awww Monday Blog Hop!

Nature Friday with Garden Critters

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. With the warmer weather moving in, Mama had the chance to see some critters enjoying the sunshine at the Botanical Gardens during her last visit.

The Wood Ducks are swimming in the ponds.

Here are a couple of American Widgeons looking for snacks.....

.......Here I am singing them 

"Iiiiiiii ain't got no snaaaaackies" 

song. Hint, hint Mama!

Back to the critters.....here is a Canadian goose....

It was even warm enough for the turtles to come out and sun themselves!

We'll wrap things up with a look at a pair of Wood Ducks taking a stroll in between swims!

Thanks for stopping by today and joining us for a look at just some of the critters at the Botanical Gardens. It is nice to see everything and every critter enjoying the first days of our early Spring!

We hope all our friends get to enjoy some nature this weekend!

 

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.