When I gathered the herd for Thursday morning's check-in, Lucy was covered in chunks of cholla. It's not unusual to find a piece...

 I saw a bird flailing about in this cholla cactus over the weekend.  I felt sorry for it but wasn't about to stick my arm in ther...

I'm a minimalist when it comes to Christmas decorations. I usually come up with some sort of tree, then proclaim the decorating don...

The cholla cactus bloomed a few weeks late this year... ...but now there are blotches of pink everywhere you look. Sort of like...

This post is from exactly one year ago, when the cholla were in full bloom. This year, not a single cholla is flowering.  The desert is ...

Last September's record rainfall has made it a banner year for cholla cactus.  Every evil specimen is bursting with color.  Here...

It was 75 degrees here yesterday, capping off several days of unseasonably warm temperatures. With so many of you shoveling snow, I can...

For the record, I feed generous quantities of hay to my equines four times a day – breakfast, lunch, dinner and a bedtime snack. In add...