Tag: Tucson
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 5: Dainty Desert Hideseed (Eucrypta micrantha)
Little flowers with an unusually great scientific name!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 3: Lil White Bells (Arizona Jewelflower)
Part 3: lil white flowers that look kind of like bells. Arizona Jewelflower (Streptanthus carinatus ssp. arizonicus)
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 2: yellow and purple meadows
What an astonishing show being put on in the Sonoran Desert right now! An explosion of yellow (Gordon’s Bladderpod [link to swbiodiversity.org]), punctuated by a purplish flower (Phacelia distans(?) or else Phacelia crenulata(?) [both links to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center]), all the more precious for its sparing presence. Robin Wall Kimmerer has a chapter…
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 1: Silver-Leaf Cassia
Silver-leaf Cassia, a common bush across Tucson’s urban landscape.
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Favorite Cacti: The Crooked Finger-Crossing Saguaro on the hill behind my house
Appreciation for the leaning saguaro with their fingers crossed on the hill behind my house.
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Fouquieria columnaris (‘Boojum Tree’): It’s like a tree and a cactus got together with some ocotillo and made this thing
Check out this whimsical Ocotillo from Baja!
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Home Again: or, What is this feeling?!
I made it Home. As in, I made it back to this place I’d made my Home. But what even is ‘Home’ to someone who didn’t grow up with that?
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan
Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 