My younger daughter and I took a trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum today, which as regular visitors to this blog know is one of my favorite haunts. Here are a handful of photos, and these and a few more, larger, are also available on my website’s gallery. My younger daughter digs for fossils at [...]

Returned late last night from four fabulous days in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Loreto Bay is one very cool (if not very expensive) new development; look for an UnSprawl case study on the new community in Terrain.org’s next issue, which launches January 10. Just as wonderful is the town of Loreto, and indeed the [...]

This weekend my daughters and I visited Agua Caliente Park near the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains in northeast Tucson. The girls got to get their hands and feet muddy catching all sorts of wetlands critters. The next day, I visited the Desert Museum. Together, these desert locales provide plenty of critter shots (with [...]

My daughters and I visited Tucson’s International Wildlife Museum this afternoon. I’m writing an essay about urban wildlife and/or hunting, or maybe hunting urban wildlife (you can see I’m not very far into it yet), so figured this would be an important visit. The museum features only taxidermied (sp.?) animals. Parts of it were a [...]

Last night we ventured, with our friends Todd and Anna and their two daughters, to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Summer Saturday Nights. On Saturday evenings over the summer, the outdoor museum stays open late, and like the movie Night at the Museum, strange things are afoot on the grounds come nightfall: A lit and dried [...]

… just crawled across the floor in our den. It strolled, all one and a half inches of the young lizard, in a leisurely sort of way. My wife Billie is a bit worked up about this, in part because it’s the second gecko (and I suspect they’re not the same one) we’ve seen since [...]