Letter From The Desert: acacias, lizards

Has it been an especially good year for catclaw acacia, or am I just really seeing them for the first time? For the last few months, everywhere I've been in the desert, from the Ord Mountains near Barstow on to the Colorado River and beyond, I have seen lush, verdant Acacia greggii populating the washes and the verges of roads. They seem incongruous, wi…