A recent Facebook post to which I had a knee-jerk response caused me to go back and do some digging. The post said: “Mexico Draws 1.5M AcreFeet of Water every year from the Colorado River (1 AcreFoot of Water is 325,851 Gallons of Water) That’s over 488B that’s 488 Billion with about Gallons of water. […]
Albuquerque Botanic Gardens
By Spades Washington. Photos by John Washington and Spades Washington. If you haven’t visited the Albuquerque Botanic Garden give it a try, you won’t be disappointed. I recently visited with my family and the botanical gardens exceeded my expectations. The weather was perfect, cool yet sunny and was a perfect day to be outside and […]
The Thorny Bougainvillea
The beautiful-but-thorny bougainvillea is ubiquitous throughout the Southwest, so much so that I almost never notice them. The bright “bracts” (specialized colored leaves) surround and visually overwhelm tiny flowers that are so small as to require magnification to fully appreciate. The always-hard-to-spell (at least for me) name derives from French Navy admiral Louis Antoine de […]