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 Dusty Chaps in 1969. left to right Bill Lackey, Petey Mesquitey, Woody Janda, George Hawke.
I suppose what I’m getting at in this episode is that monarch butterflies sure get a lot of publicity because milkweeds are host plants...
The better common name for Terrapene ornata luteola is the ornate box turtle. The name desert box turtle is old like me….not Miocene old…maybe...
I remembered that one spring when we were up in Santa Fe visiting family and out on a hike it seemed there was a...