I had only ever seen Arivaca from a car or on foot, until Rocky came along. My neighbors Danny and Sunny let me ride their horse Rocky. Sunny taught me how to ride in their pastures, and by the end of my time in Arivaca Sunny and I went on a couple longer rides through the desert. For all the Minnesotans, I think running through sandy washes in the desert on horseback is a bit like skinny dipping in july in the boundary waters. Calming and relaxing, but also refreshing and exhilarating.
This is a picture of a sunflower with the Baboquivari peak in the background. Baboquivari is the sacred mountain of the Tohono O’odham. This is before the time of the grasshoppers. They swept in and destroyed just like was described in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. There was no saving anything that had leaves. They even made an effort at the Jade and Aloe Vera plants with their thick leaves. -- Berit
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