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 grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did...
Just a half hour drive from downtown Tucson a wilderness awaits in the Rincon Mountains of Saguaro National Park on the Tanque Verde Ridge...
While weeding and cleaning his greenhouse Petey finds a nifty native Salvia sp. and tells us all about it.