A few days of traipsing and hunting deer in the hills and all Petey can talk about is hearing his heart beat. Oh dear.
There is nothing like sitting down on a hillside and glassing the opposite hills and canyons. It’s an opportunity to see many wild creatures. And hiking over rocky slopes all day long is a good thing as well. Totally recommended.
Twenty-five or thirty years ago I learned the scientific name of this butterfly as Adelpha bredowii. Then the sister butterfly of the Arizona woodlands...
I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for those episodes. “I...
Here are photos of some of the plants I was jabbering about: Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), esperanza or Arizona yellow bells (Tecoma stans var....