Petey Mesquitey sees some interesting plants while hiking and gets very excited. What’s new?
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains....
The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoons and...