Day Trip to the Desert Museum

Photographer Brian Peterson and the rest of the Peterson Homestead Family rendezvous with the Melendez Family at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Brian and the Agave Stalk (and the Animals It Attracts)

The bad news is that this represents the plant shooting its wad, so to speak, just before its demise. It’s getting ready to die. The good news is that the old agave plant’s inflorescence attracts a multitude of animals.