Do you remember Biosphere 2? It started out in the late 1980’s and continued into the 1990’s as a project to demonstrate how humans could migrate to alien worlds and create their own livable environment. An interesting idea. NASA was among the hopeful sponsors. Or was that Biosphere 1? What’s the difference between 1 and […]

We’ve been visiting places near Tubac, Arizona, where birds can be seen and photographed. We are in an area important to birders, the northern tip of the Sonoran Desert, with mountains and lowlands next to each other, different species at different elevations and various degrees of moisture. It’s fun catching these little guys in the […]

We’re taking a few months traveling in the South, Southwest, and up the West Coast before at last we get to our home in Seattle. We’ll arrive there when good weather does (we hope). This is clearly a trip with a goal, but there’s no reason not to have a good time, too. And we’ll […]

1/6/16 • Written by Julianne Now in New Mexico in the Chihuahua Desert, we find ourselves near a protected petroglyph site dated to 500+ years ago when the area was inhabited by Mogollon people. Our good luck is that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has built visitor center and trail so that we can […]