Petey can’t get to the mountains, but the mountains come to him. Lucky dude.
Monarda menthaefolia or bee balm is a spectacular wildflower. Well worth a trip into a pine forest to find it. And, by the way, an excellent nectar plant for butterflies, if that is of interest to you. Anyway, I feel so fortunate that I found one growing way downstream from any pine forest and it made my day.
This is an episode about hearing my heart beat. I initially was going to talk about the noise made by ORVs, ATVs, SUVs and...
I think buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is pretty cool, but I would never recommend it for a landscape in southern Arizona unless there is an...
Petey talks about brown headed cowbirds and their parasitic and intrusive ways.