Click map above for enlarged image I spent the first half of 2012 wandering Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge, an elevated, sandy spine that runs for 115 miles through the center […]

Here is the (largely pictorial) summation of my last wanderings in the desert; please forgive my extreme procrastination.   Mexican Campion, Silene laciniata.  You can see a closely related N.C. […]

Blackfoot Daisy (Melampodium leucantham) The Silver Creek area of Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge So, what makes a desert? Lack of water, right? But why exactly do deserts lack water? There […]

Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, is at first glance merely another pretty roadside wildflower making those long drives a bit more bearable. Growing up to six feet tall, it stands above […]