I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too, will be toads calling from puddles.
The photo is mine and taken from our home of storms in the distance as the sun is setting.
I neglected to mention that milkweeds are no longer in their own family Asclepiadaceae, but have now been included in the dogbane family Apocynaceae....
I love following the drainages out of the mountains and across the deserts, observing all the plants and animals that follow them as well....
If you are inclined to be a botanical splitter, then the plant I’m talking about is Condalia warnockii var. kearneyana, or so say Benson...