It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
There are so many species of Blues across North America and I was delighted to figure out the species in abundance at our little...
Simmondsia chinensisis is now in its own family, Simmondsiaceae, and not in the boxwood family, Buxaceae. Yay! The foliage and stems of jojoba are...
Petey jabbers about monkey flowers and sandhill cranes and declares that spring has sprung in the desert grassland.