Buffalo gourd

 

Have you ever noticed how an opening buffalo gourd flower (Cucurbita foetidissima) when seen from the side has a contour similar to that of a dinosaur footprint? Of course you haven’t. Below is a close look at the center of one of these flowers. Both of these portraits are from June 28th in northwest Austin.

 

  

 

 

 

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Just read a thoughtful and well-written essay by Peter Wood about last month’s
Supreme Court ruling against racial preferences in American universities.

 

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