Great Hills wildflower display #3

As you saw in the last two posts, the undeveloped land along Yaupon Dr. where the big power lines stretch east and west has been flourishing this spring, so at the risk of wearing you out, here’s one more look at a Great Hills wildflower meadow. In this May 6th view, pride of place—literally, in terms of the greatest area covered—goes to yellow stonecrop, Sedum nuttallianum, the yellow-green colony of which hugs the ground as it stretches across the meadow from the photograph’s lower left to its upper right (and curves back down a bit). Once again the conspicuously red flower heads with yellow fringes are Indian blankets, Gaillardia pulchella, and the small yellow ones are four-nerve daisies, Tetraneuris linearifolia. The violet-colored flowers in the foreground are prairie verbenas, Glandularia bipinnatifida, and the dry grass arc-ing out in various directions is purple three-awn, Aristida purpurea. As before, there’s prickly pear cactus, Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri, and limestone rocks.

On the technical side, I’ll add that I took this picture with my lens zoomed out to its widest setting of 24 mm. I moved the camera around until I liked the way the elements filled the viewfinder, even though that meant the camera wasn’t parallel to the ground in any dimension. Call it artistic license.

© 2015 Steven Schwartzman