Spring Break
‘Tis spring break here in the sunny Sonoran desert, and the girls and I are off to New Mexico for a couple days later this week: camping and photography. I think we’ll hit Rockhound State Park and...
View ArticleMesilla, New Mexico
Between the Rio Grande and Las Cruces, New Mexico, lies the town of Mesilla, centered around an authentic Mexican plaza where the Gadsden Purchase was signed. We enjoyed dinner on Wednesday evening and...
View ArticleWhite Sands National Monument
This morning we left Las Cruses before sunrise for White Sands National Monument, making it just in time to catch the morning’s warm glow on gypsum dunes the color of snow: My youngest daughter made...
View ArticleOrgan Mountains, New Mexico
The Organ Mountains are about the coolest Southwestern mountains I have seen, and when coupled with nearby White Sands and Mesilla (see below) make Las Cruses a location definitely worth returning to....
View ArticleRockhound State Park, New Mexico
Driving east from Tucson into New Mexico, we realized that the wildflowers we hoped to see haven’t bloomed yet. After lunch at Deming, we made our way to Rockhound State Park and nearby Spring Canyon,...
View ArticleA Spring of Dying Bees
A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM We know what happens with the birds and the bees. But it is the Spring of dying bees, and this leads us to ask, “What happens when there are no bees?” This...
View ArticleSome Unexpected Good News
A bit of good news for me: I won the Jack Huggins Award for the Study of Literature in the Southwest (or something like that, but it pays!) for my essay on jaguars and immigration on the Arizona-Sonora...
View ArticleThe Wild Wild West
Last weekend my older daughter and I traveled with a group of MFA students and faculty, including Richard Shelton, author of the enjoyable Going Back to Bisbee, to Bisbee, Arizona. Along the way we...
View ArticleIs Order of the Phoenix the best HP movie so far?
It may well be, though I’ve long been allegient to the third: Prisoner of Azkaban, directed by (Alfonso Cuarón). After being disappointed following Goblet of Fire—since Prisoner of Azkaban was so...
View ArticleWild Mint
The newest issue (September/October 2007) of Orion—my favorite environmental journal (well, besides Terrain.org perhaps)—is absolutely beautiful, and includes such writers as Sandra Steingraber, Mary...
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