... from this morning's walk, down the street and on Griffith Park Boulevard. This is probably as tall as this will grow: any moment now two things will happen. It'll curve over, and the flowers will start to come out more, making the plant look fluffy (it's also known as foxtail agave, because it starts to look like a fox brush). And at that point a third thing happens - the bees arrive. It's a very striking plant - ridiculously, cartoonishly phallic. Of course, it's not native to here, but is a Mexican import - tempting to get one of our own, though. (Nurseries! Buying plants! That's on the list for ten days time - we're counting down the post vaccine days ... on the other hand, being at a Zoom get together earlier today and learning of friends who, say, have to teach in a university classroom - in Georgia - with no vaccine in sight brings home, once again, the acutely horrible disparities between states).
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