Petey jabbers about monkey flowers and sandhill cranes and declares that spring has sprung in the desert grassland.
The photos are mine of Verbesina encelioides. Although it’s quite pretty, “a common weed of roadsides and waste places.”* *Kearney and Peebles, Arizona Flora
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...
Petey leaves work for the hills after deciding that being there now would be better than being here now.
