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I've never seen a pyrrhuloxia in Arizona. Have enjoyed watching them at Falcon State Park in Texas. Read somewhere online that they should have been named desert cardinals.
Have gotten a few good pics of phainopepla in Arizona. Nice pictures. Sounds like a place I'd like to visit.
Perhaps I have misdiagnosed your ennui on the road. Maybe you are just experiencing something perfectly natural and unavoidable: the point of diminishing returns (regarding travel).
Your mobile lifestyle improves the sight-seeing portion of your life. But how big a part of your personality can be challenged merely by gawking at pretty scenery? I'm surprised you don't spend half the year functioning as a seasonal resident at some place like Tucson that can offer hiking clubs, university lectures, good bookstores, book discussion groups, fast internet, etc. Benson is 'like' nowheres-ville.
Rita,
Since I have actually mis-IDed a pyrrhuloxia as a female cardinal, at least if it was called an Arizona cardinal I would be a lot closer. Judy, This was my first visit. Boonie, Perhaps. Whatever I was dealing with mentally seems to have been cured. At least it appears that way to me. Scenery is nice, but the details of the natural world of plants and animals struggling and surviving in their world is the real draw. My curiosity is peeked frequently as I hike. Tucson does seem a good place to settle for the winter. Who knows it may happen some day. Right now, I prefer to be "no where" and Benson is preferable to the big city. |