Petey gets so excited about the Apache Pine. What’s up with that?
Pinus englemannii is it’s northern most range in southeastern Arizona. Though at first glance it appears to be a Ponderosa Pine, certainly the very long needles give it away. It’s one of my favorite pines to grow and I take them to the farmers markets in Cochise County to sell. I suspect they will make me rich. It could happen.
It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
June is the season of soaptree yuccas blooming and at our little homestead and all along the borderlands there are…
All the plants and their communities I was excitedly jabbering about are in the borderlands year round, but the sandhill cranes are only here...