A very calm tarantula. It had just stopped raining and was around 9 pm. We gently released him where he was found at the base of a buttressed tree.
This saguaro, along with many of it's cohorts in the Tucson Mountains, is dying likely as a result of the extreme deep and prolonged freeze the region experienced exactly one year ago. It is sad to watch some of these dear old friends leave, but there is such beauty and grace as the decay.
