Harvest

The wet year in the hill country enabled some unusual displays by Mother Nature. This grass in our backyard has really taken over this year, and is called Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash Little bluestem Poaceae (Grass Family). I know this only due to an excellent search tool on the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center website: http://www.wildflower.org/ It's actually only reddish colored in the fall, so I guess being called a bluestem is not as bizarre as it sounds. Since the birds have been ignoring all of our bird feeders for the last couple of months, I assume it's because they're getting all the grains they can possibly eat from the bumper crop of plants like this one. Eat hearty, feathered friends, winter is not far away.