There is no tactful way to say this: Watering grass in Arizona’s desert cities is a rotten waste ... There are even a few grassy neighborhoods. But these are aberrations in the Old Pueblo.

“I matched the President’s face where the sunset was reflected when he walked to [the Oval Office],” he wrote. No ill intent, he suggested, just an adjustment to “balance” the picture ...

* What it is: Autumn moor grass is a European native ornamental grass that grows in foot-tall clumps. For most of the year, it’s a utilitarian plant used primarily as a foot-tall grassy groundcover.