Petey complains about spring winds, but a butterfly seems to bring him around. Let’s listen.
The photos are mine. Fruit tree in woodland and blue palo verde in grassland.
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....
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River in...