image we took in 2011 on one of our desert hikes. The rattler is not in the book, but it is a symbol of the danger that is.   Next in my ser...

     Although last week was not the first time we saw a tarantula here, it was the most recent; and we'd been concerned about why not; w...

  I am feeling discombobulated these days. For example, I am thinking many directions, from nature to politics to relationships, to what I s...

  As it stands, I don't have anything much to write about. Things are happening, good things, but they involve family, who I don't u...

Living in the desert, there is one certainty-- nothing is certain. Are we in a drought? Is the weather changing or is this how it's alw...

  August 12th This Sturgeon moon is the considered to be fourth supermoon in a row after the Buck moon in July, Strawberry moon in June an...

by Rain Trueax We are told to be peaceful. We are told that nothing is going on and that the demonstrations are peaceful. Those who sti...

  by Rain Trueax This week, we finished reading aloud from Edward Abbey's One Life at a Time , Please every morning and no...

 by Rain Trueax Barrel cactus in Tucson Someone we know was in Portland last week, the northeast part, an area of small businesses and ordin...

by Rain Trueax Coincidentally, my blog is on July 4th. That will doubtless be a holiday with mixed messages today in our times. I had alr...