High Tide in Tucson - Barbara Kingsolver

whelks
meruxes
moon shells
chicken wire
Fort Knox
tinaja
peccaries
hollyhocks
bramble (fruit- blackberries, bluberries)
nightshade family (tomatoes, eggplants)
snapdragon flowers- Had I known this word before, I could have got a point in taboo.
macaques - straight from nightmare (black ones) clinging to my feet, and me trying to get rid of them
Pyrrhuloxia couple
Swainson's thrushes