Head for shade today!

We've got a heat advisory today, it's going to get up to about 114 F - youch - the AC will be cranking! This tree is in our little neighborhood park, which I'm sure will be empty today

Smoke on the mountain

This was our view as we headed up to the camping trip from yesterday's photo - lots of fog as we climbed the road into the storm clouds; this is up on the Rim Road outside of Payson

Tree fort

We went camping this past weekend, so in honor of it, I'm posting a pic from our previous camping trip - this cool tree fort kept the kids busy for awhile - a friend of ours was nice enough to get it started for the kiddies

Daily Photo Theme Day - Empty

The first of every month is a theme day at the City Daily Photo site - for July, the theme is empty - my choice is this pic of a poor little hummingbird, trying to get some food from and empty feeder - not to worry, Grandma will get right on this one - she usually keeps it nice and full

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Funky Saguaro

Not sure what happened to this guy to make him look so weird, but here ya go

Chuparosa Park

Parks turn into ghost towns this time of year, since the poor little babies burn their skin as soon as they touch a slide - this one has a little spraypad that stays busy, though

Back to the forest

One more shot from our visit last month to Mount Lemmon, near Tucson