35mm Kodak TMAX 100 film.
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One of the first Spring flowers found in the Southwest deserts. The chicory will be growing inside another brush. It seems like it needs a little shade and support from another plant.
Rafinesquia neomexicana is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. Common names include Desert Chicory, Plumeseed or New Mexico Plumeseed.
The annual plants are gray-green with sparse foliage and are between 15 and 50 cm high. Basal leaves are 5 to 20 cm long and pinnate with narrow lobes while leaves further up the stem are smaller. White flowerheads appear at the end of the stems between February to May in the species native range
Desert chicory is a glabrous annual that grows to 60" tall and has somewhat weak, 1-several branching hollow stems and large showy white flowers striped with rose on the underside of the rays. The basal leaves are pinnatifid to 8" long and the upper are shorter, pinnatifid or entire, and auriculate clasping. It is common in creosote bush scrub and joshua tree woodland and may be found in both deserts, often seen entangled in and growing up through the branches of other shrubs and using them for support, preferring gravelly and sandy desert soils and blooming from February to May.
Angela Porter's SO cute book Whimsical Houses. started jan 26, 2024, finished 02-10-2024.
i knew when i finished everything but the sky i was going to ruin this trying to do a sky.
TOO. MUCH. BLUE!
it was so pretty pre-sky.
maybe i can paint over the sky with black.
colored pencils: Caran D'ache Pablo, Caran D’ache Luminance, Marco Raffine, Faber-Castell Polychromos, Holbein colored pencil, Metallic, Crayola Color Escapes, Kalour, Brutfuner Macaron, Derwent chinese white.
Micro pen black, miscellaneous gel pens, fineliners, dick blick studio blender, gamsol.
From the Jones Street footbridge (with some lingering snow). Elmwood Park, Omaha.
UPDATE: To my surprise, this made Explore for February 5, 2024. Thanks Flickr. Always an honor.