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.
Petey is enticed into the hills to look at plants and there is much excitement. Petey is easy. Summer rains bring our cool native...
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...
