Monday, January 11, 2010

Escape into Fencescapes


"Escape into Fencescapes" 1, 2, 3, 4
January 11, 2010
West Odessa, Texas


It was a beautiful day here today. Only as the sun slipped down did it get cool enough to wish for a sweater. I spent a mostly stolen, blissful two hours out taking photos.

I found another yucca without pods but rather aerial plantlets instead, which I'll post in a FB album for the Burr Williams Sibley Center crowd. This one was very green and thriving. Wonder if I planted one of the plantlets how it would reproduce when it matured? By traditional pods or plantlets?

For some reason, I was especially enchanted with taking portraits of our local species of ephedra today, which I'll post here tomorrow. Or perhaps if I could just get my act together, post on my nature blog, Leaves of Eve. I should gather up information about ephedra, from my books and online, and begin fulfilling my one of my 2010 goals, pursue a more dedicated nature self-education.

I saw a woodpecker — not the red ladder back kind maybe a yellow flicker gilded flicker northern flicker. That in addition to the normal crowd of critters: a cactus wren, gray cardinal, several horses, even a miniature horse, goats, a dead dog, several living dogs, a cat sunning itself atop a gazebo like some kind of funny finial, and a red-tailed hawk hunting over a field.

But what do I show you today? The delightfully weird landscapes I saw in a metal fence.

(Do I seem less weird if I say I see nature in them, too? A face, a tree, a baby bird, and clouds.)

4 comments:

Godinla said...

Very Rorschach. Me like (as usual).

Aunti said...

Checking out your pics! They make me miss you! I haven't visited for a while.
Aunti

Bobbie said...

What strange patterns.

John M. Mora said...

Flickers are the least woodpecker, woodpeckers.

They eat ants.

However, I saw one once in Central Park in the Spring with its wings spread out on the ground and iot was letting ants eat mites/parasites.