today I learned that in the desert, if you just look through your lens and not where you are going, you get spiked and learn very quickly. I find the pattern of the spines quite lovely.
The Flamingo Hotel, Route 66 Tucson Arizona. Day one of a flower hunt in the desert. It has rained in the Sonora desert for the first time in years so the annuals are in bloom. I almost drove off the road getting here. Bright yellow and blue, and saguaro cactus everywhere.
On my travels I came upon an old-fashioned maple syrup tapping. The sap tastes vaguely like maple syrup. It takes a huge amount of sap to boil down to maple syrup. I once took the wall paper off a house by boiling my own.
Today was the first time I saw my photos of native plants being used. I was at the big Toronto flower show and someone gave me this pack of native plant cards. They are my photos, which I took for Evergreen. Evergreen is a really great thing in our city, and I am really pleased to be part of it. Today it was just good to finally see where my photos are going.
You have to admire a plant that can melt ice and snow to get up and out. They don't smell strongly like a skunk--they smell like something is off in the fridge. Just a bit off.
there's news from the swamp. this is skunk cabbage. I found it. took me a week and a lot of time in swamps. it stinks and it's beautiful. it melts the ice on its way up to the sun.
