[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

[Don Dory]

Greetings to all.  This week is mostly in the neighborhood.  The first is
some sunflowers caught behind a fence:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/sunflower+behind+the+wire.jpg.html

Four doors or so down the street the City of Austin started putting
electric meters out on metal structures at the property line.  This
neighbors box and supports(much of the US still puts the power lines up on
poles) has attracted a very ambitious vine:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/reaching+out+for+support.jpg.html

Rock roses are native plants and will grow in all kinds of soils:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/pollen+for+the+taking.jpg.html

A little closer view:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/getting+closer.jpg.html

Much of the year can be brutal for plants in Austin; high temperatures and
little to no rain.  Still, some natives thrive in very harsh conditions:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/life+in+the+cracks.jpg.html

This week ends with some bamboo trying for a jail break:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/bamboo+jail.jpg.html

All the best.

-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com