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.
Petey cruises dirt roads along the east side of the Dragoon Mountains looking at rubble and plants.
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too, will be toads...
I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that...
