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.
Arizona rainbow hedgehog cactus is Echinocereus rigidissimus. That name hasn’t changed, but the black throated gray warbler is now Setophaga nigrescens…no longer Dendroica. Jeez,...
Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode....
While weeding and cleaning his greenhouse Petey finds a nifty native Salvia sp. and tells us all about it.