This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors, be it a back yard or out to the desert.
The photos are mine. The Boy’s Book of Frogs, Toads and Salamanders came out in 1957. I got it as a present when I was 9 or 10. The duded up Sonoran Desert Toad was the logo of the country band The Dusty Chaps.
I like the name sumac. I learned it when I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was...
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules...
It’s pretty hard to go wrong no matter which way you head into the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. On the day that we turned...