Are those petunias called ruellia? Brings back the days in Tucson when I grew ruellia, jasmine, sages, and bougainvillea in my tiny garden in a student housing project which is now torn down. A bird called a verdin loved to hop on the bougainvillea. I also had a family of Anna's hummers that came to my flowers all day and also forage for tiny gnats. There were tall palms and huge eucalyptus trees with cactus wrens, gila and ladderback woodpeckers, road runners, vocal grackles, pyrrhulaxias and phainopeplas. One night there was a great horned owl outside my apartment hooting away. And then there were the geckos on the walls under the apartments' outside lights. Look at all the memories you conjured up Jim!
