Dead at the oasis

There is nothing interesting going on at the oasis even though the weather is lovely. I walked around outside the oasis looking for flowers. There's huge potential but hardly anything blooming yet. The Texas Desert-rue is on the verge of blooming.

You can see all the wildflowers that are sprouting on the background of this photo of a Painted Lady. Unusual to see one in the middle of winter.

As if identifying flowers isn't hard enough, some of the flowers hide inside other vegetation so that if one didn't know better one would think the leaves belonged to the flower. Here's an example of what I mean. This Bicolor Fanmustard (Nerisyrenia camporum) bloom has grown up through a bush, and no leaves in sight. If I hadn't known what it was, I would have thought the bush was blooming.

This weekend is supposed to get wintry again so it's just as well that flowers and butterflies aren't doing much yet.