26 Aug
Today’s landscape photo’s
Ocotillo cactus below in wild state
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and some native wildflowers
and a cloudy days morning glories still open in the afternoon–Tuesday afternoon…
then, with all the butterfly’s this year
Today’s Viceroy butterfly. The first I have seen. No monarch butterflies, which these mimic for protective purposes. What about where there are no monarchs? Good luck on your [...]
18 Aug
I took these late, mostly to avoid the zillions of bees on them.
-evening without flash below
15 Aug
Here are a few African Sumac photo’s since I receive so many hit’s on them.
These trees sprouted from seeds several years ago. They make great shade. Cat’s climb up them when they are big. they tend to have a deep green, and yellw a bit to show a problem, usually not [...]
14 Aug
-Mesquite beans
-that is wild morning glory that swamps over many things
-this Zenia showed up where one was last year
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12 Aug
Today’s Flower and Landscape photo’s, with visitors.
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which is more colorful, passion flowers or butterfly?
butterfly on lantana
11 Aug
Here in the high desert the monsoon season has been a wet and humid one. Here are some of the flowers around my yard, some cultured and some wild. Here is a rose.
and here are morning glory’s going up over 20′
and this is Devils Claw, the blossom
and I believe this is Bridal Wreath
and [...]
7 Aug
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Our native member of the sunflower family
and the native fields of gold just getting going in blooms
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and a hollyhock still blooming thanks to the monsoon season. I was collecting seeds off of these today.
and of course a cat tail.
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4 Aug
With another wet monsoon season, thanks quite possibly to La Nina, soon the hillsides around here will be covered with these wildflowers in this photo. Some of the now green hills will turn decidedly orange. I’ll probably take a video of it, since it is not exactly a common phenomenon, but did occur two [...]
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