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Black Mountain

April 23, 2021

“You should climb Black Mountain,” Gary said. “It’ll be fun!” Gary said. And thusly did we find ourselves halfway up what appeared to be a mere blip of a mountain but is actually a 1,300-foot elevation gain over the course of a 1.1-mile trail. That’s not hiking, friends. That’s basically rock climbing. Still. We climb … More Black Mountain

Laura’s Journal: Cactuses!

April 20, 2021

Let’s talk about CACTUSES!

Look. I know it’s “cacti.” I’ve known that since I was, like, three years old. But from the moment we rolled down out of the mountains into the Sonoran Desert where every bit of landscape is spiked with saguaro, I just can’t stop thinking of them as “cactuses.” (I blame the book I recently read about octopuses. That is a correct plural.)

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