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Slow Moving Moisture
Snow is such an exciting event for those of us living in southern Arizona and when it does snow the local jabber is always...

Road Across the Grassland
There is not a whole lot more I want to add to this show, except that there is a road across the grassland and...

Simmondsia chinensis
Jojoba is also called goat-nut and pig-nut, deer-nut or to plant geeks like myself, Simmondsia chinensis. The foliage and stems are browsed by wildlife...

Trip to the Cascabel Fair
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains....

Pinus discolor
We love our annual Christmas tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from...

Autumnal Native Grasses
The villain in this show is the grass Enneapogon cenchroides or soft feather pappus grass. There are many invasive exotic grasses that have changed...