Petey leaves work for the hills after deciding that being there now would be better than being here now.
It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
The photos are mine. Fruit tree in woodland and blue palo verde in grassland.
Mentzelia pumila is in the family Loasaceae. Kearny and Peebles in Arizona Flora note that “the family is remarkable for the diversity and peculiar...
