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| Leucocoprinus |
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| September 2: One found along the trail beside the Pond. Possumhaw (Ilex decidua) |
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| September 17: scattered about the hillside in stone and shade. Wild four o’clock (Mirabilis multiflora) |
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| September 22. |
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| Rhus virens: Evergreen Sumac |
We read this from the LBJ Wildflower Center's site:
"Evergreen sumac is a shrub or small tree, from 8-12 ft. in height with spreading branches. Its shiny, evergreen, pinnate foliage is tinged with pink in early spring and maroon after frost. Leaves are alternate, 2-5 1/2 inches long, with 5-9 fleshy leaflets on stiff stems. The 5-petaled, inconspicuous, greenish or white flowers grow in clusters 1-2 inches long at the end of stout branches. When the fruit matures in mid-September it is red, broader than long, and covered with fine hair.
Evergreen sumac can be used to make a nice, thick hedge or screen, but can grow tree-like with a long, straight trunk. Only female plants produce flowers and berries. It is fast growing, generally insect and disease-free, and drought-tolerant. Not a true evergreen – leaves are green through the winter, then are dropped, to be replaced within a week with a new crop.
USA: AZ , NM , TX
Native Distribution: central Texas west to southern Arizona, south to Oaxaca in southern Mexico
Native Habitat: Rocky hillsides, gullies, & bluffs. In Texas, found on rocky bluffs, slopes, banks, and dry hillsides in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos. "
Native Distribution: central Texas west to southern Arizona, south to Oaxaca in southern Mexico
Native Habitat: Rocky hillsides, gullies, & bluffs. In Texas, found on rocky bluffs, slopes, banks, and dry hillsides in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos. "
(https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=rhvi3)
No offense to the inestimable servants of the Wildflower Center, but observers on the hillside above The Creek would find the flowered bush anything but "inconspicuous."
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| Genus Opuntia. The tasty tuna of the upper hillside. |
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| Food for bird, raccoon, jackrabbit, fox, squirrel, hog, and local tax payer. (September 12: found scattered about the limestone.) |
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| Oxygen reduction firing results in this black pottery of Kate's |
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| Open-pit firing under the big Oak Tree with a few losses and a few keepers. |
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| Bag-o'-field: Just add water. (And did we ever!) October is grass-planting time for the sheep field. |
About once a week, these bats fly circles around the yard and in and out of the lower deck.
Plenty of historic flooding down in Texas this October.
The extent of Creek-flow the beginning of September.
And by way of contrast (October 16).
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| Added for anyone keeping a Sky collection these days. |
