Walking Prescott

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Monday, March 03, 2008

Why worship mistletoe?

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Here's one of our neighborhood live oak trees, looking like a half-and-half special. The green half, of course, is the mistletoe; the se...

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Friday, February 29, 2008

3 days of spring...

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...and over 300 images. Yikes! I'm busy trying to rebuild my inventory so that I can be a slacker every now and then! Suffice it to say ...

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Apples on Oaks???

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Have you ever heard of oak apples ? There are a couple such galls, above, on one of my turbinella scrub oaks. Far more visible than mere aco...

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Acorns Underfoot -- and in Process

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As I was walking up the road toward home today, I happened to glance down at a neighbor's driveway. What should I see but many, many aco...

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

The Lesser Evergreens

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The heading is by way of saying that not all mountain evergreens are conifers and their relatives, such as our majestic ponderosas above or ...

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Under the Mistletoe

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Along with the Christmas holly, laurel, rosemary, yews, boxwood bushes and, of course, the Christmas tree, mistletoe is an evergreen display...

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