This is New Mexico's version of leaves changing color with the season.
All those little green shrubs that appeared with the early summer rains...
...have now turned yellow...
...with daffodil-looking flowers at the end of the stems...
...that are very, very tiny.
Broom snakeweed isn't any good for grazing, but it does a great job of holding the dirt down.
It also provides cover for birds and rabbits...
...and other feral beasts.
Thank you for adding scale with your finger and JCC! Sadly, the plants that are so prolific don't taste good.
ReplyDeleteYes, it used to provide awesome background for Deets shots. Sigh...
ReplyDelete........and they look amazing. I went to Pie Town and saw them on the way there. I was wondering what they were and now I know. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHad you told me you'd be going to Pie Town, I wouldn't have skipped this year. Another reader, Aunt Jean, was also there. Hope you had a great time. Heard the winning pie was "a strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, pomegranate deep dish beauty."
DeleteI already told my boss I want off for next year. So let's plan on next year. My husband wants to move there . LOL. I made a pie but it didn't survive the trip.
DeleteLovely - good thing they aren't really edible. Those grazing muzzles would never get to come off!
ReplyDeleteAnd provides a gorgeous backdrop for amazing photos......
ReplyDeleteBoth this plant and Chamisa are beautiful....I'm not sure which one kicks my sinuses into fits but I have to admire the yellow of the landscape from far, far away. But they are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThe color is powerful! Happy Monday...so far we have about 22 rain drops. We are surrounded my huge fires and the air is thick with smoke.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you know the story when Anne of Green Gables, using her ever wonderful imagination, re-named Miller's Pond (boring) to "The Lake of Shining Waters"? She would NEVER have stood by to call these plants Broom Snakeweed!! Perhaps "Rolling Waves of Sunlight", where the feral beast roams :-)
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it. I shall hereafter refer to this stuff as Rolling Waves of Sunlight.
Deletewhere the feral beauty roams
DeleteWould gladly take that change of the season!! JCC looking very regal, king of his "jungle"!!
ReplyDeleteOoh... Love these! They make me happy!!!!
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