Facing South

Sitting in the breakfast nook, this is the view we have facing south.  That's a mesquite tree, frequent landing pad for our various feathered friends.... gold finches, house wrens, red cardinals and the like.  This morning we saw some pretty "sulfur" butterflies--- a pretty lemon yellow color, really ---flitting among the flowers in the foreground, and then our resident roadrunner paid a quick visit to the long brick porch.  Too bad there's never enough time to catch him in a photo!

In the background are the Rincon Mountains, which are in the northeast corner of Tuscon Valley.  ("Rincon" means corner in Spanish.)  Oh, and you might be able to spy the sea of saugaros beyond the adobe arched entry also!