the state quarter and mange

If you ask Arizonans what they want the governor to put on the state quarter, people tend to come up with saguaro cacti, unless you ask schoolkids, who come up with fish, volcanoes, and kickball. Grownups have some pretty good off-the-wall suggestions, too, if you check out the slideshow to the right of the article text.

Some people suggested saguaro flowers, which are the state flower and are kind of pretty by themselves, but really, when you get a whole bunch of them on top of something my husband calls a 'cartoon cactus,' it looks like a cactus wearing a fried-egg hat.

In other news, here's an article about a bald squirrel in Cleveland. In case you ever needed to know what a bald squirrel looks like.