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21 March 2011

Super Moon/Mom

As close to horizon as I got

As most of you know I’m visiting my Mom in South Texas, a place I’d rather not be yet with a person I love dearly.

I’ve been bitching about the awful weather here which I suppose many enjoy. Yet coming from the dryness of Arizona to this has proven to be a major adjustment. Thus the head cold I suppose.

Sunday: 88 F and 76% humidity San Benito, Texas vs 59 F and 27% humidity even with a possible 80% chance of showers on the way back home in Yarnell, Arizona.

Everything just seems moist, clothes, bedding, me.

Other than that, life is good!

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14 March 2011

MWT – The Saguaro Cactus People

Icons of the west, the saguaro cactus reminds me of people. And while visiting Saguaro National Park I met a few prickly characters.

The grow in all shapes and sizes.

The Sonoran Desert is the only place where the saguaro cactus grows naturally.

If a saguaro seedling is to survive, it needs the protection of a “nurse plant”, (or in this case rock) which provides protection from the sun and freezing temperatures.

After its first year, the seedlings highly variable growth is controlled by the amount of water in the soil.

Saguaro’s flowers open at night during May and June and are pollinated by nectar feeding bats, but not until they are 35-40 years old when they may stand up to six feet tall.

The first arm on a saguaro usually appears when the plant is 65-75 years old.

Saguaro branches always grow upward but frost or snow can damage the base of a limb allowing the weight of the branch to pull it down.

Yet if the branch survives, the growing tip will turn upward again.

They normally live for 150-200 years and can grow to 50 feet tall. Death may come by freezing, lightning, wind, old age, vandalism or human development.

When a saguaro dies, the woody ribs that supported it in life become visible as the softer plant tissue dries up and crumbles away.

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28 February 2011

It’s that time of year for me to visit my Mom in South Texas. I’m tired of the cold 5,000 foot northern Arizona winter weather. Instead I’ll be warm and sticky from all the humidity. Hey, why not complain about something like the weather that you can’t do a damn thing about?

Taking the truck and slide-in camper, although I’d love to have the Big comforts of the 5th-wheel I don’t need to spend any more on fuel.

Mom is asking for help. Dusting, shopping, things that she could get assistance with, if she’d just let people in her house. But she is afraid of the unknown, untrustful. I’m really not trying to complain, just to better understand June, this woman I call my mother. I’ve been trying to learn herstory. I want to help her. Guess I’ll have to learn how.

And it’s only Mom now as my Dad passed just over a year ago. I feel so fortunate to have seen him during last years visit.

Yes, I now have a smart phone droidx and hopefully will be able to stay in touch, if I’m not in the middle of nowhere. Which I hope to be many times on this journey.

Seminole Canyon, TX

But I don’t find it easy to type much on the qwerty key board and reading blog posts on a 3×5” screen could cause blindness. I have to watch my usage on the mobile hotspot which I hope to use for posting to keep you all up to date. So I’m apologizing ahead of time if you don’t see my comments. Maybe this is when FB becomes easier.

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