Whew! Where did the year run off to?
It is spring again in the desert after a wet late winter and the wildflowers and greenery are growing and blooming. Fat saguaros and barrel cactus, water in the stream beds, clear glorious nights with every star visible... My Sierra Club service trip and Spring desert herb retreat both went well with harmonious people. Aravaipa Canyon is verdant and wet and we got to see the big horn sheep that roam those canyons.
I am a bi-desert woman now. I movedaway from the Mexican border and up to the Yosemite area.
There is plenty to do and become involved with in that stretch of the great west. I have gardens to plant, food to prepare, veggies to pack, herbs both wild and domestic to use and talk about, and plenty to learn about in the Sierra foothills.
A few more days in the deset visiting family and friends and then I head north.