I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy to be here now once I get there now or very soon.
Penstemon dasyphyllus is an April, May bloomer and the splash of the blue flowers in the grassland is a wonderful surprise. “Whoa, what is that blue?”, you may shout as you stand in a zany mix of grasses and Chihuahuan desert scrub. “I am so here now!”
The photos are mine and of Penstemon dasyphyllus and also of Houstonia rubra. They were taken on a gravelly slope of the Dragoon Mountains not too far from where I work…well, not that day.
Petey talks about brown headed cowbirds and their parasitic and intrusive ways.
Petey loves the native milkweeds and like it or not you’re gonna hear about it. No matter where you like in Baja Arizona you...
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run...
