Things you don't see in Georgia

A few pictures from back in Tucson--scenes and creatures you won't see in Georgia. Each place has its own particularities. The Arizona mountains, the Georgia piedmont. The destert tortoise, the gopher tortoise. Arizonia opuntias are different from Georgia opuntias, and yes we do have native cacti here. There were some growing in scant soil on the granite outcrop, alongside mosses and lichens. Related, but different species grow in the desert, as part of very different communities. Life goes on about its business, but only in particular places. It is delineated. It is particular. It is constantly changing, even if very slowly, slower than the pace of a tortoise or a cactus or a landscape.