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A Determined Desert Shrub, and Welcome back! The Approach of Spring in the High Desert and Gambel’s Quail
I decided that now you and I are a week into February, winter-weary reader, it is high time that I resume watering my dreary-looking little mesquite trees in our “yard” – not that we really have a yard….it’s really just … Continue reading
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The Rev. Dr.'s Musings on Nature, Life & Belief 