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<p>Max Dalrymple, BA, cum laude, CSU Fresno; MLS &amp; Advanced Management Degree, UT, Austin; 56 yrs old as of 2006</p> <p>Editor, Xeriscaping, Suite101.com</p> <p>My interest in xeriscaping comes from the fact that my family were displaced Oklahoma farmers who made it to California in the nineteen-sixties. I started gardening in high school and college and took the local agricultural college's course on organic gardening. Though I lived in the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley, it is land irrigated by the Sierra Nevada Mountains rainfall. We might cut back on our lawn watering in really bad summers, but the crops always had plenty of water. I became disabled a few years ago and I moved to Tucumcari, NM in 1998.--To a city in the desert which doesn't conserve because it still has a high water table. Conservation efforts must begin early and with homeowners, although smart cities like Albuquerque sponsor Xeriscape(TM) programs. I've traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada and spent a year in Alaska. I've visited friends in Arizona (now MT) who wouldn't even plant cactus, because they were saving water--and he was in agriculture! I strongly feel we can live enjoyably within our water supplies and plant plants that thrive in our environments! (My brother doesn't understand it either--I always have at least a plant or two around.) I'm currently looking for a purebred standard Poodle puppy (I'm afraid I need a purebred to insure the hypoallergenic poodle coat or I'd take a mutt off the street) and I'm waiting for a kidney transplant. I now live in a drought state, Kansas, but I miss my time in Tucucari and I may move back when I'm not on kidney dialysis anymore! After the transplant I may try my hand at profession librarianship once more. You can still read my archived articles on Xeriscaping, which were written at the turn of the century but are still as valid as the always were. I don't always rant on something so some of them are pretty good! If you invest the time, ENJOY!--Max</p>