It's warm and spring is here in Yuma. Digger is the resident desert tortoise at the visitor center. He blends in with his surroundings so well that many visitors don't see him. In this picture -- he's the rock to the left of the post. His pen has a burrow in the middle that he goes down into at night and during hibernation. He hibernated from mid-December until mid-February. He loves to sun himself and we feed him kale and broccoli. Desert tortoises in the wild eat anything the desert has to offer such as cactus and any little bit of greenery they find. They get almost all of their moisture from the food they eat. Desert tortoises have claws instead of webbing on their feet so they can dig a hole to escape the heat.
We took a drive to Casa Grande south of Phoenix to visit some friends. The brittlebush, thats the bush in the picture, was blooming all the way along the highway. It made the drive through the desert beautiful.
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