By Thomas Wiewandt / June, 2021 When saguaro cactus fruit ripen shortly before summer monsoon storms arrive in the Sonoran Desert, wildlife have a feast. Some Native Americans, most notably the Tohono O’odham, have traditionally joined this feast. I love collecting the sticky seed masses that have [...]
By Thomas Wiewandt / May, 2021Featured in the 2021 Winners Gallery of The International Color Awards This panoramic photograph appears as a double-page spread (pp. 110-111) in FOSSILS INSIDE OUT. To help connect the past with the present, I needed an image of “The Miraculous Egg,” aka [...]
By Thomas Wiewandt / November, 2016 I hope that you are well and found some joy in this holiday season. There’s no getting around it, a dark cloud looming overhead has seriously dampened this year’s holiday spirit. So here’s an unusual greeting for an unusual year. Compiling [...]
By Thomas Wiewandt / December 2015 Some holiday gatherings are more memorable than others. And last Sunday I was invited to one of those . . . celebrating Desert Dwellers. Where? . . . way out in the desert of course, at an old homestead nestled within [...]
By Thomas Wiewandt / 2006A recipe derived from helpful hints offered by a waiter at the Pate Palo European Brasserie in Santo Domingo, the restaurant that hostedthe farewell banquet of our 2002 Iguana Specialist Group conservation conference/workshop in the Dominican Republic. I came home with a list [...]
By Thomas Wiewandt / December, 2005 (a recipe posted in her honor – we lost Marilyn to cancer on 12/10/05 and for at least 10 years she has sent me one of these sumptuous cakes for Christmas) Blend together 1 pkg Duncan Hines Butter Golden Cake [...]
