When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...
Arizona rainbow hedgehog cactus is Echinocereus rigidissimus. That name hasn’t changed, but the black throated gray warbler is now Setophaga nigrescens…no longer Dendroica. Jeez,...
One day several years ago I sat down and wrote this story about growing up in Kentucky. I still sit and hand write my...