Oh My Goodness Gracious!

Thanksgiving is nigh. Which generally means that a hard freeze or a frosty condition is also nigh. Actually though, the CB has already had twain frosts. Yet they were not hard frosts. Just barely frosts.

Anyway, the CB has also enjoyed a bit of rain, this particular part and parcel of the passing Julian. As a result, the warm season perennials are flowering and the winter weeds have also gone crazy. Crazy I tell you. Yet there are few insects about. So few pollinators. Dang!

Course, going crazy right before first hard frost is a bad strategy for an annual weed, pollinators about are no. Like here we see bluebonnets, vicias, etc, mostly annual winter weeds, so thick that the bare ground is scarcely visible. Yet all these weeds may be entirely doomed. Yes. They have sprouted at the wrong time of the year and now they could perish forever, any minute.

Mercy! Untimely death. Mercy!

Note to average amateur nature photographers. The finest attribute of a wide angle lens is that you can always include your feet for scale.