There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or special wild place that makes them so glad to be alive.
The photos are mine and Jaime Kahn’s and taken on the road across the grassland. Happy New Year, my friends!
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in this...
In birder lingo loggerhead shrikes are uncommon in southeastern Arizona. Some winters and springs it seems there is a shrike on every other fence...
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name of quinine bush or its scientific name is Purshia mexicana....
