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Elizabeth and I regretfully had to leave Big Bend after an amazing event, but alas, we had to return home. On the way back, of course, we had to stop a bunch. It took about 14 hours to get back to DFW... :)

I'll have to work on the ID's for many of these later on. LOTS of new plants and critters for me in this region of Texas. :)

I have barely begun to organize and identify thousands of plant images from my early June jaunt to West Texas. I thought I'd upload this one as a starting point as a teaser.

Fendler's Ceanothus is apparently known in Texas only from a handful of plants in the higher elevations of the Trans-Pecos. This shrub was photographed on a hillside in Tobe Canyon at about 7000 ft, on TNC's Davis Mountains Preserve. It is definitely a pollinator magnet with many bees, flies, beetles, and a few butterflies on the shrub.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3445031

p.s. I was never able to get a clear picture of that interesting little black and red beetle in the background!