Wildflowers

Recovery: Today, with a surprise drop in temperature (93 F), I was able to recover a bit and get back on my bicycle for a decent ride. Not much energy afterwards, but definitely improving. 

The wildflowers were in the verge of a neighbor one block north. This is the third wildflower verge I've seen in our neighborhood.  I like it!!  The Hollyhocks were brought from Spain to Mexico and New Mexico.*

I wonder how much water they use to make it grow?  I also really like the verge in the extra.

* To the Spanish, the plant was generally known as Las Varas de San Jose, "rods (or staffs) of St. Joseph," and as such it was pictured in many early paintings of St. Joseph in southern Europe, its quality of enduring all manner of circumstances in all climates and soils typifying God's love and mercy for mankind.