In Search of Tortolita Petroglyphs: A Trip Report

[jbeegoode]

In Search of Tortolita Petroglyphs, we visit crested saguaros, climb smooth rocks a completely bare as us, and find finally find the petrogyphs that I have been looking for for many years.
https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2017/09/08/in-search-of-tortolita-petroglyphs-a-trip-report/
Enjoy, you all.
Jbee

[nuduke]

JBee,
How do crested Sagauros form?  Is it a different cultivar or damage as they grow or insect effects...or what?
I'm sure you must have explained this back in the mists of time but please indulge my geriatric amnesia and explain again.
John

[jbeegoode]

I have mentioned how, or why they form...nobody really knows. Freaky genetics, unusual energetic vortices like a twisted tree, dunno!

But, they sure are cool and fascinating. There are many variations to saguaros, twisted arms, thin, thick, tall, arm positions on the main stalk, number of arms. They vary from region and locale. These cresteds, are everywhere and unique as one in ten thousand.
Jbee

[eyesup]

Pictoglyphs! Petroglyphs! Nice!

Occasionally we run across petroforms. Which is pretty interesting.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

its pictograph, not pictoglph. Painted onto rocks, instead of chiseled. Generally much older than the chiseling.
Jbee

[eyesup]

You are correct, oh wizened one. 

My fingers were too far ahead of my brain!

Duane

[jbeegoode]

You are correct, oh wizened one. 

My fingers were too far ahead of my brain!

Duane

Whaoh there, Eyesup!

Definition of wizen
wizened; wizening play \ˈwiz-niŋ also ˈwēz-; ˈwi-zᵊn-iŋ also ˈwē-\
intransitive verb
:to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality
transitive verb
:to cause to wizen
a face wizened by age.

I ain't dead yet!

Jbee 

[eyesup]

Ok then, how about:

wiseacre, noun
1. a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom
2. wise guy

Origin of wiseacre
Middle Dutch
Middle High German
late Old High German
1585-1595
from Middle Dutch wijssager prophet,
translation of Middle High German wīssage,
late Old High German wīssago,
by popular etymology equivalent to wīs wise + sago sayer, from earlier wīzzago wise person; cognate with Old English wītega, akin to wit

or maybe wisenheimer?

Duane

[jbeegoode]

Ah ha! No that I've got it, I need to develop the capacity to use it.
Jbee

[nuduke]

There are many variations to saguaros

...as I (and no doubt others) am now well acquainted with, given the number of pictures of the desert you have posted over the years, JBee!  Not to mention the rapidly fading memory of our visit to AZ in 2014 where we experienced them first hand (or perhaps first arm! )


By the way, I would avoid being too indignant about the wizened epithet!


John