Between the Mesquitey chickens finally laying some eggs and the point leaf manzanita blooming in the hills, there is much excitement around the ol’ homestead.
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...
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...
It feels like there have a been a couple false starts to fall, at least temperature wise, but maybe the cool days of autumn...
