We have gone back to the shrine at the base of the walnut tree a couple more times. It’s a beautiful woodland and somehow it feels like the right thing to leave some flowers at the base of that tree.
There are hundreds of places in the deserts and woodlands where humans dreaming of a better life have died. The environmentally devastating wall being built along the wild border of Mexico and the United States will do nothing to deter those dreams.
The photos are mine.
Initially it was frustrating to read about Tageticula yuccasella as the moth that pollinated all of our native yucca species, when I knew from...
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and...
The botanical name for Arizona rosewood is Vauquelinia californica. The species name californica means of California, but it’s not found…
