Reflections

Sometimes it pays to put away my smartphone or point-and-shoot and get out the pen. Plants and their structures are studies in light and shadow, not just color. This lone evening primrose blooming in the warm spring morning at North Mountain was calling out to me along the rocky trail. No other plants of that species around anywhere---just this guy. Beautiful. Perfect. It was lying right tight to the ground in a low-growing circle of foliage. The desert is going to bloom gangbusters this year with all the rain in January. The little primrose was just the beginning.