Do you know why you should check your shoes in the morning before you put them on, at least in Arizona?
We went camping in the mountains this weekend, and we checked our shoes for these:
Scorpions hunt at night and hide during the day. This one was under a rock before I took this picture.
It was soon looking for a crack, crevice …or shoe… to take cover in for the day.
Have you ever seen a scorpion?
Okay, I’m making it easy this week.
Extra points for the scientific name. 🙂
I chose this tree for mystery seed of the week last week because it is grown throughout the world.
When it is flowering, the bright purple catches your eye off in the distance.
The jacaruanda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) has huge clusters of purple flowers and lacy foliage.
The jacaruanda flowers are long purple tubes.
It grows where there is little danger of frost, including the lower desert in Arizona.
The seeds I showed last week are found within large pods. I don’t have a photo of the pods.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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