Archive for July, 2008

Dog Flower

-The dog and flower evening. Sasha and canna lily

-The front yard with monsoon grassland, cottonwoods and mesquite trees and a live oak or two

-noon flowering (yet) fields of gold, some ivy, baby mulberry trees, lots of vinca.

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Late July in the high desert

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These are from my yard yesterday.  These cute flowers make a poisonous bean–Castor Bean

and a yellow Canna Lily just blooming

and perennial red clover

and wild Lantana

and then grass and company, wild in the wash.

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Ocotillo Cactus at sundown

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the prior sunset

yesterday with flowering Crape Myrtle trees

and yesterdays petunia’s in a light weight cement pot I made about 10 years ago. These once hybrid petunia’s come back every year, last through most winters as well.

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Monsoon wildflowers are starting

Today, July 20 2008, had these wildflowers all over the hills.

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Grapes

I had all the grapes I could eat last year for a while. When I grew up in the Midwest, we had grape vines in our side yard that you could sit on (at trunk curves) and eat the grapes inside of a green tunnel. Occasionally surprised birds would see me and seem [...]

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