PHOTOPOETRY

Photo Walk: Pretty As a Phasey Bean

And what’s a phasey bean when it’s at home? Well, according to our friends over at ‘AI Overview, “A phasey bean (Macroptilium lathyroides) is a tropical legume in the pea family, known as a wild bean or cowpea, grown for forage or cover crops but also considered an environmental weed in places like Australia due to its aggressive

Photo Walk: The Cute But Shaggy Soldier

Isn’t this cute little thing too graceful to be called ‘shaggy’ or even ‘soldier’? I think I’d call it the Graceful Knight. I can’t find a prettier synonym for the word ‘tenacious’, so knight it is. Botanists call it Galinsoga quadriradiata. Yes, a mouthful. Locally, it’s leaves are rubbed together and the juice applied to

Photo Walk: The Sensitive, Healing Weed

The ‘sensitive plant’ wasn’t the least bit sensitive and was a bane of my childhood. It carpeted our backyard, scratching our feet and legs whenever we ran across it. You’ve probably seen this photo on my About page, and other blog posts. I took the photo weeks ago, when searching for a mascot of sorts,

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