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.
There are around 150 species of Rhus (sumacs) found around the world in temperate regions. They are found in both North and South America...
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30...
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...