20
Sep
Posted by benafia in blooming, flowers, photographs, todays views, wild blooms. Tagged: butterfly chrysalis, Life, summer lily, sunflower photo's, wildflowers. Leave a Comment
With the monsoon season drying up, the approx 14 inches we received left the native sunflowers shining brightly.
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There was much caterpillar damage this year. Here is a butterfly in waiting.
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- this lily was from a bulb planted
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11
Sep
Posted by benafia in blooming, flowers, landscapes, todays views, wild blooms. Tagged: flower photo's, Life, photos, plant photo's, wild morning glories, wildflowers. Leave a Comment
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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4
Aug
Posted by benafia in Life, photographs, todays views, vegitation. Tagged: Desert Summer Wildfowers, desert wildflowers, flower photo, Monsoon Wildflowers, wildflowers. Leave a Comment
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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1
Aug
Posted by benafia in Life, blooming, flowers, garden, landscapes, photographs, todays views. Tagged: desert gardening, flower photo's, Indian Blanket photo, Sphinx flying, tomato hornworm, wildflowers. Leave a Comment
ex tomato hornworm getting drinks from verbena.
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today’s view of grass and fields of gold still looking like grass.
and spring wildflowers are still going into August–Indian Blanket below
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20
May
Posted by benafia in Life, blooming, flowers, garden, landscapes, photographs, todays views, trees, vegitation, wild blooms. Tagged: bamboo, blue flowers, flower photo's, flowering trees, flowers around bamboo, hollyhock, palo verde trees, wildflowers. 1 Comment
out the car window
Palo Verde trees blooming on road to my house, May 20, 2008.
and flowers near bamboo
and a hollyhock in larkspurs. I have 8′ tall hollyhocks and this one is about 18″ in a dry spot.
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27
Apr
Posted by benafia in blossoms, photographs, todays views, vegitation, wild blooms. Tagged: Bottle Brush, fleabane, flower photo's, French poppies (Flanders' Filelds poppies), spring blomming, verbena, wildflowers. 1 Comment
Twins?
Bottle brush bush
I’ll put some more up later. Going to put a couple on my Benafia blog now.
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