Petey thinks it is just fantastic that poison ivy is part of the Bisbee streetscape. He’s a strange fellow.
Poison ivy is a sumac. Its botanical name is Rhus radicans and there are so many cool sumacs around the world. Many are known for their edible fruit in tea form or ground into a powder. Yum! But poison ivy doesn’t fall into the edible fruit category and I think that only in old Bisbee, Arizona will you find it leaning into the sidewalk to be brushed against. So caution my friends when wandering the steep sidewalks of that marvelous little town in the Mule Mountains.
Who hasn’t gotten hooked by a dry devils claw pod on a walk in the borderlands. So pesky and yet so interesting looking, it’s...
Petey seems to think that fall is made up of many smaller seasons that make for one long glorious autumn. That’s what he says.
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as...
