Petey babbles on about the southern sun, long shadows, kinetic art in the house and finally a small primrose. Whew!
Oenothera primiveris seems a few hundred feet in elevation out of place at out home near the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. Its normal range is listed as only up to 4,500′, but then plants can be so unruly. Guess we’re lucky to have this beautiful little harbinger of spring around the 1991 Marvellette.
I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that...
Petey talks about the moon and coyotes and a beautiful wildflower found in the nearby mountains.
Mammalogy was one of my favorite courses back in my college days. It was 1968 (early Anthropocene) and there were…