Bob took this photo many years ago. Some of the debris in the sky is actually damage done to the slide by mold. We thought the yellow flowers were mustard. This was one of his mother’s favorite photos of his.
When we made our long cross country trip a couple years ago we saw similar plants in the fields.
When we asked a Texas farmer what those plants were, he looked at us with skepticism and answered, “Damned yellow cross pollinators.” Well, now we know for certain!
When we take drives these days and see yellow flowering wild plants, you guessed it, we call them “Damned yellow cross pollinators.”
Dad would have us spend days in the hay fields pulling up these plants…. hated that chore because we had to drag them out to the road to make sure they didn’t come back to reseed next year.