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 think what I love most about finding all the relics of the past, from old ranch trash, old military cartridge brass, to ancient...
Petey feels the need to blame someone for our erratic monsoon and takes it out on La Nina.
This show about our garden is a “repetey” from a couple years ago. Some things never change, except, we have started using neem oil...
