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This is hardly the last thing I will have to say about shade. Here in Tucson we are having our second consecutive ‘nonsoon’ – the monsoon that doesn’t show...

I missed last week because I drove to California to help my mother host a family reunion, of sorts, in memory of my aunt, who would have been 99...

First, thank you to everyone who has been kind enough to write me about the website and blog. I’ve had a few questions about my logo/ page-loader (shout-out to...

I plan to post occasionally about arid-adapted species I particularly love, and I have to start with superstition mallow (Abutilon palmeri – https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3968 ). Native to the Sonoran desert...

I’ll be the first to agree that this website is a peculiar assemblage – a fragment of a novel; a collection of articles about deforestation, Muslim shrines, a park...