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.
It’s been a long time since the Santa Cruz River ran and even when it did it only ran in intermittent sections along its...
Petey encounters a black bear while on his annual hunt and gather in the Galiuro Mountains.
I have said it ad nauseam, but I just love autumn and I love it because in southeastern Arizona it is a wonderful long...
