Nature
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Thanks for the remembrance reminder. Too bad history doesn't seem important in our schools anymore.
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School's out. I sub a lot in History, we have great history teachers!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 what is that?
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@approxinfinity said in Nature:
@RockChalkinTexas-0 what is that?
Are you talking about the bloom stalk that came out of the Sotol? Yeah it was pretty high up there.
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Yesterday the girls and I saw a set of twin fawns! They were across the road so it is not the best but it is not uncommon for around here as there seems to be at least one set, sometime two sets, of fawns every year and you know which doe is carrying them too. A load to lug around. I know a thing or 2 about twins!!!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 You have to wonder how evolution lead to the Sotol being almost two entirely different kinds of plants -- a low ground shrub-like feeder and then a 12 ft high 'bloom'. I mean, I guess it has to do with the need to preserve the seeds... but other plants have the same need. It's just pretty unusual.
Also-- huge Carl Sagan fan here. Probably my most admired person I met in person.
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Yuccas do the same with a high stalk and their flowers up where the polinators can get to it. The birds went up and down the bloom gathering seeds in the late summer. They lasted for weeks. The one and only time they bloomed.
I got a book by Neil DeGrasse Tyson signed when I saw him in Austin years ago.
Speaking of blooms....a couple of my bluebonnets still have blooms, while the others have turned to seed.
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Found a picture of the blooms on the sotols. Go Spurs Go!!!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 I loved Neil on Colbert! So smart and so funny. Did you see him on the final night?
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I don't have pictures yet, but nature was a major beyatch here last night. I heard wind reports of 98 and 113 mph. Our whole neighborhood is almost tree-less (ok. Ii exaggerate a little sometimes but not much this time). Me, my wife and the chainsaw have been outside since 8:30 this morning and we're nowhere near done.
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Today's photo is of a grand-flowered horned poppy plant that was the only one to survive a very hot spring one year. The grand-flowered horned poppy is a vibrant red poppy that loves full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. It is virtually pest and disease-free, as well as deer-resistant. Do note, their roots are toxic if ingested.
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Here's a couple of my sunflowers that have bloomed in the garden. First one is a Mammoth. The second one sprouted on its own and came back from last year in a raised bed and has a colored stalk, beet red.
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Here's a couple of Zinnias. These make excellent cut flowers for an arrangement. Do you grow anything special because you get great joy from them?
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Here's some blossoms for your Saturday! Go Spurs GO! It's do or die time.
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That two tone flower is really cool! Go Spurs!
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A baby praying mantis that was on the outside of my second story bedroom window this morning (taken without my glasses on)!! He was no bigger than my thumb nail.
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Had flooding in areas around me but here's what the rain gauge showed this morning, before we got another round of soaking rain, to the point where there are 83 low water crossings closed right now with rivers and creeks reaching flood stage.
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Today's post shows a couple of different blooms on my lantana plants! The hummingbirds love them.
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The crepe myrtles have bloomed after all the rain!!!
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Today's photo shows my tallest palm tree that is the only one to have survived the many elements that have come its way since Mike planted it in 1986, on the one year anniversary of our having moved in. He got it and another from a load of Washitonians brought up from South Padre that he ordered for a property he maintained and got paid for the job with those palms. The other one was planted on the east side of the house and we lost it during the freeze of 2021. Somehow this huge one out back unprotected has survived. The sotols are around it and under the big tree in back are the brittany spaniels who Mike buried there under his tree stand (archery).
