Petey jabbers about monkey flowers and sandhill cranes and declares that spring has sprung in the desert grassland.
When I initially wrote this story I was using Lyman Benson’s The Cactus of Arizona as my reference and the queen of the night...
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family,...
The photos are mine. Fruit tree in woodland and blue palo verde in grassland.
