Less than two weeks of AZ sunshine and we will head back to Iowa. There are a lot of flowers blooming right now especially on the cacti but as beautiful as they are the just last a few days.

We saw our first hatch of baby quail and encountered the first rattle snake. It was not close - at least I saw it from a good distance and had Lexi close. The rattle was very distinct - upon my description I was told it was a ring tailed rattler but I haven't confirmed it. It just laid there sunning and paid no attention to us.