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Bellota of the Borderlands
Many years ago while driving the dirt road between Klondyke and Pima, Arizona I rounded a curve and and almost crashed into an Apache...

Flowering Plants and Waiting for Monsoon
Here are photos of some of the plants I was jabbering about: Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), esperanza or Arizona yellow bells (Tecoma stans var....

Mala Mujer
Mala Mujer or Cnidoscolus angustidens is an interesting plant in Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family. It’s found in southeastern Arizona and south into Sonora on...

Wolfberry Song
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson....

Caesalpinia gillesii
The little rant at the beginning of this show was spontaneous and was prompted by the trial of Scott Warren, a fellow who was...

A Chicken in Your Backyard
I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control of...