Back in May, I planted a butterfly garden. I bought various native nectar plants and some host milkweeds, the rest was filled in with annual zinnias and cosmos. I honestly didn’t expect much the first year. I figured the perennials would grow and really produce results in a year or so. I was pleasantly surprised, in the […]
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Partly cloudy and 75°F. I took these photos in mid August of this year. I was coming into Ruidoso from the north on highway 37. In June of 2012 a lightning strike started the Little Bear Fire that burned around 44,000 acres of land and 254 buildings. Three years later the land is slowly recovering. It was heartbreaking to see
Cloudy and wet, 75°F. This is my final post from Beavers bend. Leaving Broken Bow, I went out Highway 3 towards Antlers. Not far away I saw some beauty and had to pull over. The narrow leaved coneflower. Beautiful flower. Just opened At its prime. a little closer the interesting detail! Since there was flooding that
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