Petey will never be a learned fellow, but he’s a pretty nice fella.
Tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa) is beautiful wildflower of the uplands. And though seeing it on a summer hike sounds hot and grueling, it does bloom into the fall. If you want one for your own habitat, it is grown commercially, so look for it in a good little nursery. But I do hope you stumble upon it on an early morning hike in the hills.
I have had the Gila topminnow going around in my brain for months and this poem may be a work in progress, but I...
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants....
I think that if I went back twenty or so years and looked at my notes, I would probably be waxing poetic about fall....
