Tropical Beauty South of the Border
2 min readMar 6, 2021
The Glorious Birds of the Boardwalk
Growing up in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona, I didn’t know a thing about the visual delight of the Bird of Paradise flower and plant. I’m not sure I even saw one until well after graduating from high school in 1970. My home was not exactly a cultural, nor botanical Mecca.
