"So many people..."

this is the type of habitat this plant seems to prefer...mud or silt washed out of the rocks

this is what this plant looks like when looked at from a few feet...they are attached to small vines

this is what the seeds look like when observed up close...quite pretty and with a nice aroma

 this is a rare sight in the dry desert...a juicy caterpillar....

the window of opportunity is quite short to see the flowering plants in this desert...i figure less than a month...and the situation changes daily as the maturation and flowering depend on certain conditions which may not occur every year...

read a good article on my news feed which is well worth finding...is is called "The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump"...which was on Vox.com..the author has done a lot of research about what the courts have done in the past...all the way back to the Dread/Scott decision which ruled that black slaves are not people but property...a notoriously bad ruling...i watched most of the state of the union address and was pleasantly surprised at how well the commander in chief related his case to the american people and the world...not enough about minimum wage being dismal

i watched an interesting movie last week called "Rope of Sand" 1949...104 minutes...

 with burt lancaster claude rains, paul henreid, and introducing corrinne calvert...it is about diamonds in africa and those people who want them and those people who dont want them to have them...i expected bogart to appear before the movie was over,,,but he did not even make a cameo...the cover of the DVD has an illustration of ms calvert which looks exactly like jane russell...she does not even get a mention on the cover of the DVD and you have to look at the fine print on the back...there are a couple of odd things in this movie...one is that twice for no reason that i can figure out lancasters character exhales a huge puff of smoke (there is so much cigarette smoking in movies from this era it is no wonder so many people in films died from cancer...Bogart being just one) the other odd thing is that ms, caverts character is subjected to a lot of action...bombs in the restaurant, fights qnd time in jail...but her hair is always perfect...you assume that there is a hair dresser within arms reach at all times...but all in all not a back flick...

"So many people, so little purpose."  Sherlock Holmes "The Three Gables"