Petey is enticed into the hills to look at plants and there is much excitement. Petey is easy.
Summer rains bring our cool native plants into flower. And the floral show goes on and on as you work your way up into the hills and mountains where some of the most spectacular flowers can be found in late summer and early fall. So now is the time to go. So go.
The photos are mine and of a fruity canyon hackberry (Celtis reticulata), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium!), blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis!!) and the “rustyish” seed...
Petey sees his first official wildflower of spring and is his usual excited self.
An episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call “books and bones.” Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern...
