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It`s amazing, isn`t it, how a bird would find a perch like that comfortable, but he must like cacti, otherwise he wouldn`t be a cactus wren, would he? You have to credit God with a sense of humour sometimes.
Bizarre in a different way is this sign near a Phoenix prison. Doesn`t say much for their confidence in prison security, does it?

Cactus wren on a saguaro cactus

Sunrise light on a saguaro cactus

Saguaro National Monument

Cactus wren on an ocotillo tree,
Saguaro National Park

Sunset Saguaro National Monument

Saguaro cactus with
homo sapiens for scale

A male gila woodpecker
on a saguaro cactus

Collapsed saguaro cactus

A male gila woodpecker
on a saguaro cactus

Beavertail cactus flower,
Lost Dutchman State Park

Monarch butterfly and
Strawberry Hedgehog cactus

Organ pipe cactus in monument
of same name

Prickly pear cactus,
Lost Dutchman State Park

Backlit photograoher
during a Saguaro sunrise

Yucca plant, Lost Dutchman State Park

Blooming yucca plant,
Saguaro National Monument

Rock screatching head,
Chiricahua National Monument

Chiricahua National Monument

Totem Pole,
Chiricahua National Monument

Compressed (telephoto) shot of road in
Saguaro National Monument

Chiricahua National Monument

Remote mobile home with modern link to
the outside, north-west of Tombstone

Roadside graves, north of Bisbee

Just can`t do without it, even in
Saguaro National Monument

Roadside graves north of Bisbee

Cells at Yuma Territorial Prison
State Historic Park

Alamo Lake State Park

A sign placed near the State Prison on
Interstate 10, near Phoenix

Mission San Xavier del Bac
reflected in car roof

Interior of Mission San Xavier del Bac

Church ceiling of Mission
San Xavier del Bac

Restoration work at
San Xavier Mission

The Sonora desert has not been kind to
the paint on this sign

Prairie dog at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

Prairie dogs at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

Prairie dog at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

Prairie dogs at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

Prairie dog at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

World`s largest again,
in Tombstone

Mountain lion at Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum

Gravestone at Boot Hill Cemetery,
Tombstone

Melted plastic plate,
Organ Pipe National Monument

Gravestone at Boot Hill Cemetery,
Tombstone

Decorated cadilac in Bisbee

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