In the early 1990s when this story and song came about I was poking around the West Branch starting at Ajo Road and north almost to Starr Pass where I worked at Desert Survivors Nursery. It actually starts near Irvington Road and it meanders through a lot of private property, so you just can’t go wandering along it like a certain naive plant geek did back then. Yikes, I wish someone had told me! Anyway, I still love singing this song and thank you so much for listening.
There are some cool flora and fauna found on the west branch, so it might be fun for you to do a search on line for the West Branch of the Santa Cruz…recommended.
It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
Petey thinks that being out in the wild is good for children and adults as well. What?!
There are three species of Acourtia found in Arizona. If you are a desert rat of sorts, say you walk around, poke around in...