Going to Az, NM, and maybe TX

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:40 am

I am going to AZ and maybe some other places to Check out wildlife and my properties. Will take lots of pics, I want to see what people are growing around there. Leaving on thursday.

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:13 pm

Cool.

Have fun Aaron. Can't wait to see some pics.

-Jay

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:24 pm

Thanks Jay

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:21 am

Ya. Get some pics, I'm interested in seeing some different plants!
I didn't get the chance to get to NM, so I'm particularily interested in seeing those.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:30 am

I am going to try my best to make it to NM and Texas. I am looking forward to see how well plams do in southern NM.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:54 pm

Be carefull bro and while your looking at palms, do me a favor and if you see rattlers on your propperty, let me know and please allow me to "hunt" for them later. I don't "hunt" to kill but rather catch - n- release like fishing.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:32 pm

Hi Kansas.
Part of the reason I am going on this trip is to meet up with so other people to go field-herping ( the hobby of locating reptiles and amphibians in the wild). So maybe we can make a trip sometime in the future.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:15 pm

DesertZone wrote:Hi Kansas.
Part of the reason I am going on this trip is to meet up with so other people to go field-herping ( the hobby of locating reptiles and amphibians in the wild). So maybe we can make a trip sometime in the future.

OH MY GOD!!!! Please, and I really do mean this with so much excitement, PLEASE get with me if you can about a month or two before you go next time. I have wanted to go herping in New Mexico, Nevada, West Texas, Arizona FOREVER, even longer than I have been into palms. I started going to rattlesnake roundups in 2000, but then quickly found that the rattlers are WAY to pretty for me kill so I catch -n- release. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get with me next time!!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:03 pm

Right ON!

When I save up in the next year or two and can go again I will let you.

Here is a couple of pics.

That's it for now, wrong forum.

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:58 pm

Have a great trip!
Maybe you can help me ID the snake living in my GH? (if I can ever get a photo of it

Steve

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:36 pm

Thanks, I will.

"snake" if you get a photo I can probably tell you what it is.

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:00 am

That's cool.

you guys are into that.

If you like I can make a sub forum in here for reptiles?

-Jay

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:50 pm

Steve, next time I am down, I can ID it for you if you don't get a pic by then.
Jay, If you want that would be cool. In the mean time, here are some of my old ones that I gave up for venom extract....

Eastern Massasauga (Pygmy Rattler)

Western Diamondback

Prarie Rattlesnake

Canebrake (Timber Rattlesnake)

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:04 pm

Alright cool. What should we call the new forum section?

-Jay

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:31 pm

Here is a photo from today,
(not the one in the GH

Steve

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:33 pm

Couple more,

Steve

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:46 pm

Jay-Admin wrote:Alright cool. What should we call the new forum section?

-Jay

Thanks Jay,
You could call it the "wildlife from the desert gardens" and also post one on the palm forum "wildlife from the palm gardens"?
Then people could post pics of the birds, reptiles and other things the find around there gardens or of like kind habitats?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:53 pm

Well.... I made it back and had lots of fun, but was unable to make it to NM, and TX.

I was however able to see my property in AZ

The weather was perfect other than a fire that made it smokey in a few of the pics. I don't think it got over 95 degs in that area. My neighbor told me that they have very pleasent weather in that part of Arizona. He said that last winter lasted for for 2 days and then it was back to short-sleeved shirts.

He said the nights in winter can get cold but the days warm up nicely.

Here are a few pics taken on or from my land there.

This is a few pics without the smoke.

and the others

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:40 pm

Your welcome. I added the new sub forums.

-Jay

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:42 pm

Awesome.

Looks like my kind of place.

-Jay

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:51 am

Jay-Admin wrote:Awesome. Looks like my kind of place.

-Jay

Yea... its going to be fun. To bad it's so far away.

As time goes on I will save up and put in a well, septic, generator, solar, and wind mill. Then we will have a good place for both our families to winter on.

It is only about 2 miles out of town and it is a very friendly place. They have an 18 hole golf cource there if you play golf.

Oh and lots of palms, cactus, agave, ocotillo, aloes, and more than a few saguaros. I was most worried that it would be to cold for saguaros, but even they grow good there.

Like always I did not take as many pics of things as I hoped to do, but did managed to get a few pics of the town.
Here is a few shots from Sunsites.

South american saguaro

Next time I will try and walk around so I can get more shots. There was some huge prickly-pears, agave, and palms there but it looks bad driving around, stopping and taking pics of poeples yards.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:25 pm

A few shots from surrounding area/towns.

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I was told these palms are 85 years old.

Okanagan desert-palms · Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:32 pm

Aaron thanks for those pics! What part of the state is your property located or nearest city? I really like the mountains in the background very similar landscape especially pic#3 and #7 to the south Okanagan here minus the palms. It`s great to have a plan in place to not have to deal with winter congrats.

John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:35 pm

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Aaron thanks for those pics! What part of the state is your property located or nearest city? I really like the mountains in the background very similar landscape especially pic#3 and #7 to the south Okanagan here minus the palms. It`s great to have a plan in place to not have to deal with winter congrats.

John

Thanks John

It's by Pearce/Sunsites, south east of Tucsun. It is deferent than most of the places I have been in southern Arizona. The valleys and the mountains there feel more like it does here in the drier north-west. It is very similar to here and the people down there are so nice. I had a hard time beliving I was only 50 miles from the border, except for the wild agave, yuccas, 6'high engelmanns prickly-pear and the palms around the homes.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:57 pm

Here is a couple more pics not far from my place. The bigger yucccas are found where the cattle are fenced out of. The biggest yuccas on my place were nocked over on the ground and have sence died. Agave were also found right on the other side of the fence. It is kind of strange I did not get any pics of wild agava and or pics of the large prickly-pears.

Dasylirion

yucca elata

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:46 pm

DesertZone wrote:
Jay-Admin wrote:Awesome. Looks like my kind of place.

-Jay
Yea... its going to be fun. To bad it's so far away.

As time goes on I will save up and put in a well, septic, generator, solar, and wind mill. Then we will have a good place for both our families to winter on. It is only about 2 miles out of town and it is a very friendly place. They have an 18 hole golf cource there if you play golf. Oh and lots of palms, cactus, agave, ocotillo, aloes, and more than a few saguaros. I was most worried that it would be to cold for saguaros, but even they grow good there.
Like always I did not take as many pics of things as I hoped to do, but did managed to get a few pics of the town.
Here is a few shots from Sunsites.

Next time I will try and walk around so I can get more shots. There was some huge prickly-pears, agave, and palms there but it looks bad driving around, stopping and taking pics of poeples yards.

Sounds good to me. I can learn to play golf.

Absolutely awesome plants and scenery down there.

Those agaves are huge!

-Jay

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:45 am

Thanks for the photos

Steve

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:22 am

I hope to get more in the future.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:28 am

Brother you simply HAVE GOT TO TELL ME WHEN YOU GO NEXT TIME. I will not bug you all the time while we are there, I just want to go herping and photoing. But PLEASE let me know when you go again, or if you don't want me to go with you, if you just give me directions on how to get there

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:37 pm

Hey kansas, I will.

Look in the desert wildlife section, I will post a couple of pics.