Here are photos of some of the plants I was jabbering about: Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), esperanza or Arizona yellow bells (Tecoma stans var. angustata), little leaf sumac (Rhus microphylla), acorns on a silverleaf oak (Quercus hypoleucoides), and coral bean (Erythrina flabelliformis). So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the...
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
Petey feels the need to blame someone for our erratic monsoon and takes it out on La Nina.
