Tacho had a garden with all sorts of vegetables. There was green chili and tomatoes and carrots i think – it is hard to remember now, that was so many years ago. It was a large garden and I remember he would send mom home with bags of green chili and tomatoes. I wish that I could remember what else he grew there because if I could I would do my damnedest to emulate that garden of his in some yard here. There were nut and fruit trees as well and bags of apricots and pecans. I remember my aunt teaching me how to open walnuts and how to crack pecans in our hands. There was green grass everywhere and trees that dropped their leaves to blanket the ground in the fall and a creek that ran past the front yard. I loved those yards especially in the summer months when I would wake up in the front room in the cool morning air and hear the water bubbling by and the birds singing in the tall strange desert trees.