I didn’t know you grew up in the desert! I can totally imagine being a kid and vacillating between being too cold inside but too hot outside haha also, playing mermaids in the pool and watching Thirteenth Year is such a core memory!
Also, every time I go to AZ I think about this book I used to have growing up called The Cactus Hotel. It illustrates the life cycle of the cactus, how it keeps giving back to the desert even after it dies. I’m glad to have had that book because it helps me appreciate the true beauty of the desert 🌵
Aw I love that Lauren! I’ll have to check that book out.
So glad you can appreciate the Thirteenth Year too 🧜♀️ Pros of being the older sibling = talking my brother into doing whatever I wanted when we were little 😆
Ahh the desert. Loved reading your memories! Very nostalgic. As you know, my home reflects a bit of our desert life in with my love for beach life. I consider myself lucky to have lived in the desert, mountains and beach. It's all a part of me I suppose.
From Wikipedia: “According to naturalists/writers Henry and Rebecca Northen, a curiosity of these [jumping cholla] flowers is that C. fulgida opens its flowers at exactly 3:00 p.m. solar time, and can be used to set one's watch”
I didn’t know you grew up in the desert! I can totally imagine being a kid and vacillating between being too cold inside but too hot outside haha also, playing mermaids in the pool and watching Thirteenth Year is such a core memory!
Also, every time I go to AZ I think about this book I used to have growing up called The Cactus Hotel. It illustrates the life cycle of the cactus, how it keeps giving back to the desert even after it dies. I’m glad to have had that book because it helps me appreciate the true beauty of the desert 🌵
Aw I love that Lauren! I’ll have to check that book out.
So glad you can appreciate the Thirteenth Year too 🧜♀️ Pros of being the older sibling = talking my brother into doing whatever I wanted when we were little 😆
Ahh the desert. Loved reading your memories! Very nostalgic. As you know, my home reflects a bit of our desert life in with my love for beach life. I consider myself lucky to have lived in the desert, mountains and beach. It's all a part of me I suppose.
Aw I love that. I’m grateful to have lived there too!
From Wikipedia: “According to naturalists/writers Henry and Rebecca Northen, a curiosity of these [jumping cholla] flowers is that C. fulgida opens its flowers at exactly 3:00 p.m. solar time, and can be used to set one's watch”
Amazing!🌵Especially because you posted this about 3pm too 🙃
I’m cactus-like that way