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It was a recent morning of watching mud daubers come and go through our barn door that reminded me of the small wonderful things that happen around us daily. So I went to the Books and Bones Retreat …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Monsoon Symphony
Looking at storms out across the land from our little homestead near the Ol’ Guajolote.
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Petey Does Mimosas
It was Linnaeus that created the name Mimosa from the Greek: mimos for mime and the suffix osa for resembling. As to the plant jabbered about in this episode, it was Asa Gray that named the species g…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Columbines in the Borderlands
Lemme see… I forgot to include the Baboquivari Mountains along with the Huachuca Mountains as a place to find Aquilegia longissima. I’m thinking that will get my son-in-law Jared pretty excited as we…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Rainbows and Warblers
Arizona rainbow hedgehog cactus is Echinocereus rigidissimus. That name hasn’t changed, but the black throated gray warbler is now Setophaga nigrescens…no longer Dendroica. Jeez, but okay, okay, I’ll…
Published on 3 months ago
High in the Mountains
Maianthemum racemosum is in the family Asparagaceae and there are two subspecies of Maianthemum The subspecies out here in the mountainous forests of the western U.S. is amplexicaule, so it reads lik…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Big Yellow Sign
I love that sign. I call it the Robert Frost sign. I think Ms. Mesquitey is tired of me saying that. I love her too.
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Desert Ironwood Tree Festival
I love desert ironwood trees….love peering under them to see the plants they’re nursing …love the purple and white flowers and seed pods that follow… never minded the spiny branches tugging at my clo…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Desert Honeysuckle Memory
Over the years I’ve found populations of desert honeysuckle with different colored flowers, so I’ve grown plants with red brick colored flowers, with orange flowers and with yellow flowers. I’ve read…
Published on 4 months ago
Beautiful Feather Bush
There are 30 species of Dalea found in Arizona, many of which are the the nursery trade because they are so doggone pretty. How cool is that? Very. Feather bush (Dalea formosa) can be found in lots o…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago