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Globemallow. Common name of this species is Fendler's (or thicket globemallow).
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/169176/browse_photos
Thank you for this legend! Most informative..
3 weeks agoThis is my favorite journal entry excerpt of the entire trip thus far:
“ I have been looking forward to getting to Marfa ever since we left Austin 9 days ago. There have been a lot of hard rides and big headwinds. For a while I seriously thought about quitting. It was just too hard and not fun. However, now I think I will make it. I might still have to ride in the van for a day or part of one, but I don't want to quit. I am especially looking forward to my son, Ethan, meeting us in Lordsburg and riding with us for 4 days to Mesa, AZ, the last of our rest days. That stretch will have some of the hardest rides of the trip. Maybe he can pull me through :)”
-Martin
Are you going to the observatory for a talk? A bicycle friend of mine, Bill Ramey, is on staff there. He rides a Tout Terrain with a Rohloff hub. That is a more typical set up now, but at the time, his bike was quite exotic and had many admirers.
Enjoy your day off!
Here is where the term “pretty deadly” applies…
Oops. I will claim it was auto correct.
3 weeks agoThe first and hopefully last!
4 weeks agoPetrol? Love the typo! If “petrol” was out there…boom ;)
4 weeks agoAnd….another one for Bill :)
4 weeks agoBill? Please identify :)
4 weeks agoWait a minnit! Closed? It’s mid March…😬
4 weeks agoRedbud tree! They will bloom here in Ohio in another month or so. By the way, the blooms are edible, and not bad tasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercis_canadensis
This map meeting was in the morning because the previous evening was on a day off. Right now it is hard to leave too early because it is still dark. However, what you say is a good idea.
1 month agoLucky indeed! Yesterday, my derailleur got sucked into my spokes & busted its hangar. Good thing I was less than half a mile from home, and have a few backup bikes.
Keep up the perseverance!
Soap tree yucca
3 weeks agohttps://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/170387-Yucca-elata