Letter From the Desert: Flight of the Hesperocallis

I should say a few things about where we live now. We moved only 15 miles or so from the last place, but we are now in almost a completely different biome. There we were at about 2,600 feet above mean sea level, on the broad front of a bajada being shed by the Little San Bernardino Mountains just south of us. Now, we’re at 1,800 feet, essentially on th…