Happy New Year. Here is a pic of a saguaro, freshly planted in the front yard. (Is it still a yard once it has been converted from bermuda grass to desert landscape?)

Sammie must be about 6-7 years old, if this website is correct. It will take about 50 years to reach 7 feet tall. It’s interesting to think that even 30 years from now, this will be an old neighborhood by Arizona standards (and fates willing, I will be an oldster too.) Sammie, if the bugs, woodpeckers, global warming, and renegade trick-or-treaters don’t get him, will be a “columnar juvenile”. Wow! Will the mesquite tree have come and gone by then?

What seems sure is that this blog will be long long gone. The way technology changed in the last ten years, it is safe to believe that people will not be doing google searching with a keyboard to find words and pics of anyone’s front yard by then. I can’t predict what tools we’ll use for sharing, but I am sure that the contrast between “slow and steady of the saguaro”, and “new gadgets every 18 months” will be interesting.

Sammie is here, and we hope he’s here to stay.