topic Re: New Mexican Wildflowers in Garden

New Mexican Wildflowers

Kachina624 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:13:26 GMT

This Cholla Cactus is one common version of our wildflowers. I know places where there are whole fields of it. Pieces easily blow in and root in gravel yards. It's invasive and difficult and expensive to eradicate once established. Surely is pretty though.

That's the Rio Grande in the background.

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Katcat1 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:21:59 GMT

Very pretty. I love how vivid the color is.

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on the bay — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:38:29 GMT

The colors are so brilliant and the mountains-glorious!

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On It — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:42:17 GMT

@Kachina624 It is nice to see the Rio Grande flowing. I heard there were flooding problems today along some of the burn scars. I just do not know the names or locations of many of the smaller villages. The report sounded dire.

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Leggett28 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:44:23 GMT

Beautiful 🤩

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feline groovy — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:26:44 GMT

Lovely; wildflowers are my favorite.

Thanks for sharing.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 02:38:50 GMT

@On It The river at Albuquerque last week. Did you get flooding in Ruidoso at your house?

There are hundreds of Spanish villages in Northern NM. Many of those people are descendants of the Conquistadors. They are not Mexican and families go back 13 or 14 generations. I love to try to pronounce the names of those villages. My mom, who knew a lot about them, said they are very cliquish. They even have their own version of Catholicism.

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dancingwoman — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 03:42:33 GMT

@Kachina624 Just beautiful! DW

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BlueFinch — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:11:59 GMT

I sure wouldn't want to tangle with that cactus. Beautiful flowers though, and landscape.

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Lilysmom1 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:26:25 GMT

@Kachina624 , how lovely! Very vibrant against that background! LM

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On It — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:25:42 GMT

@Kachina624 Thank you for the photo of the river in Albuquerque. It is good to see water flowing. This was a rough first half of the year. I am so grateful the monsoons came early. The animals were desperate for food and water.

We are well away from the flood areas. The Upper Canyon area is narrow, and the river runs through it with the runoff from the tallest mountains. They had flooding from a heavy thunderstorm which made the news reports. The burn scar in Gavilon Canyon is going to be having threats of flooding with every major rain event for quite some time.