Photos of Flora and Fauna in Sand Canyon

WELCOME to our new Follower, Sharon!  Hi, Sharon, I didn't see you at first, since you don't have a photo; sorry I missed you when you first started following.  Sharon has a blog about "life and travels with the dogs" which looks like it's all set up, but she hasn't posted yet.  She has a beautiful dog named Katie who is shown on her blog.  Thanks for following along with us, Sharon, we're happy to have you on board!  :)

Katie and I took another long walk yesterday.  While we were walking I was looking at all the flowers and bushes in the sand surrounding us.  At first glance, it just looks like a bunch of bushes, but when you look closer, there are a lot of different kinds of plants here.

If I didn't have Katie, I wouldn't take half the walks I take, and I wouldn't walk half as far on each one.  Without this blog, I'd never be looking around so much for interesting things to take pictures of for that day's post. I'd miss a lot.  And if I didn't have this new camera, I wouldn't be able to take such wonderful photos.

The following photos of the desert plants may not be interesting to some readers, but I wanted to remember them, so here they are. The first one is the only cactus I've seen here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've mentioned before how quiet it is here.  As we were walking, I could hear a bee buzzing across the road, and I went over to get a photo.  It's so quiet, you can hear a bee buzzing or an insect flying.  I also got a few photos of birds and a little lizard.

 Ant Hill - no ants - must have been nap time.

 Here's our Bee

 Bird  with long beak

 Bird with tufted head - if you click on him, you 'll see how cute he is.

Lizard - at the bottom/middle.  He's hard to see.

Katie keeps flushing these guys out of the bushes.

And that's what we saw on our walk yesterday.

I wanted to say something about Facebook.  I do have a Facebook account, but I don't use it.  When I first started on Facebook, I just couldn't believe all the "stuff" people had on my wall.  Their political opinions, stuff I was not interested in and didn't want on MY Facebook wall, all the little day to day things people (and their friends) were doing.  I couldn't believe the volume of information.  I really didn't like it and there was not enough control.  I know things are different now, but I just have a negative feeling about Facebook.  I ended up unfriending everyone, then I felt bad, I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.  It wasn't that I didn't like them, there was just too much stuff on my wall from too many people.

I know having a blog like this, which is open to the world, might seem even worse, but I feel I can control exactly what goes into my posts.  Also, if I don't like a comment, I can delete it.  That hasn't happened, but just in case, I do have that control.  I didn't feel that way about Facebook.

So, I have had people want to "friend" me, and I don't respond.  I'd rather be cyber-friends through my blog and yours rather than Facebook.  For now, anyway.  So if you've sent a "friend" request to me, I'm not going to be your friend on Facebook, but I'll be a great friend on Blogger.

From Me and Katie, have a great Friday, everyone!  :)