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WILDFLOWERS on the BOOTLEGGER TRAIL McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale Bootlegger Trail Despite abundant winter rains and mild temperatures that raised our expectations for a banner wildflower season, this year's showing of desert blooms has turned out to be a more low-key event. The hype may have fizzled, but there are still plenty of flowering plants to enjoy along Valley trails. One of the best places to observe a wide variety of specimens is in the far east side of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. In this area of desert, wildflowers thrive best among boulder outcroppings on the flanks of Granite Mountain where precious bits of shade and trapped moisture nurse blooms to fruition. When the elements dole out perfect measures of rain, warmth and sunlight, poppies and lupines paint the desert floor in blazing shades of purple and orange. This spectacular but rare event is beautiful to behold but, there's also joy in spotting a lone poppy or colorful patch of brittlebush durin...

Update April 4, 2017: Untangled has been released in paperback . [Episode 102] Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast tackles one of the most difficult developmental stages in the parent-child relationship: adolescence. If you�re a long-time listener of the podcast, you know that I�ve spent most of my professional career working with or doing research on adolescents. Like most clinicians I have more experience with adolescents when things are going wrong in their lives than when they are going right. And as a parent, I can tell you that I seem to be much more clued into when things are going wrong than things are going right. Like earlier this afternoon� no, I�m just kidding, I wouldn�t do that to you. What I will do is introduce my guest. Dr. Lisa Damour  ( @LDamour ), clinician, researcher, professor, parent, writer of the Adolescence column for the New York Times� Motherlode blog , and most importantly for today�s episode, Dr. Damour is the author of Untangled: Guiding teen...