Posts Tagged ‘photos’

The Grapes of Privot?

Privet.
Sometimes a bush and sometimes a tree, depending on its landscape destiny.
It has some rather nice flower clusters in spring, and this fruit here near Christmas.
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Hi to Alphainventions drop outs?  No.  Drop inns.  That’s the ticket.

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Change of Season

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MORNING GLORIES GONE WILD

Desert southwest monsoon season’s morning glories from Sept. 10 2008

-and growing on the “landscapers nightmare”, desert broom, which actually can be the only vibrant green around through very dry periods.

more fields of gold

-castor bean plant with flowers

-dead cottonwood branches before meeting the ground

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August Blooms—-Pink and rambling

I took these late, mostly to avoid the zillions of bees on them.

-evening without flash below

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Rhus Lancia——-African Sumac

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 [...]

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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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Flower views today

Today’s flower show in my yard.
Larkspurs!

and a hollyhock group with tombstone rose (lady banks rose) behind it.

and a mixed flower party

and red yucca flowers over golden barrel cactus, surrounded by verbena

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DESERT LANDSCAPES

Some desert scenes near me

Between (above) Tubac + Tumacacori Arizona and the Santa Rita Mountains

Monsoon summer sky’s from my yard.

grass in my front yard which cows and horses coveted until I fences it in t keep them all from eating everything, including roses right at the front door.

Today’s flowers at top of wash above the [...]

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EVERYDAY FLOWERS

The colors were dramatic late this afternoon.

and good old fashioned hollyhocks

and by any other name; out of focus rose

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ONION PIE

Onion family values.

sundown, so with flash.

poppies, with verbana and growing larkspur’s

Charge of the larkspur’s

Cat tales.

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