I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy to be here now once I get there now or very soon.
Penstemon dasyphyllus is an April, May bloomer and the splash of the blue flowers in the grassland is a wonderful surprise. “Whoa, what is that blue?”, you may shout as you stand in a zany mix of grasses and Chihuahuan desert scrub. “I am so here now!”
The photos are mine and of Penstemon dasyphyllus and also of Houstonia rubra. They were taken on a gravelly slope of the Dragoon Mountains not too far from where I work…well, not that day.
I love following drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well. Do...
I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And, if you grew up in the eastern…
Lotus greenei has the common names of deer vetch, deer clover or, red and yellow pea. I like the last one best as it...
