Meet New Friends Where You Least Expect Them Check out this beauty. I ran into him on one of my daily walks on the pecan farming roads in Las Cruces, NM where we live now. Who knew that peacocks hang out in New Mexico? I was walking...
... unavoidably treated to a view four 20-somethings sleeping face down on dirt covered sofas, scattered beer bottles and a smoking fire pit. The only one awake was their dog, who was quietly chewing his way through one of the Lazy Boys.......
One day out of the blue, two years ago, my mother announced, "We aren't 100% Finnish, you know."...
New Wilderness, New Exotic Creatures One thing about moving to the Southwest, there sure are some amazing and gnarly looking bugs out here. The desert is not brown and dead like I imagined it would be before moving here. It's teeming with plants and animals, most of which...