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At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:00
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is fun. And by the way, it was my friend and Willcox resident Steve Marlatt who reminded me of ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:55
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:55
I don’t know any poultry fanciers that don’t have a guinea fowl story or two or three. Chickens are where it usually starts as they are the gateway...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
At one point when I was reading about the age of water I came across some research indicating that some of the water molecules we drink could be 4....
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:09
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:42
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:23
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:20
Velvet mesquite is the predominate native mesquite of southern Arizona. If you go west toward California, you will start running into western honey...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 05:18
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.
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- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path.
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- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7