Hummingbird and Creosote Blooming
by Judy Kennedy
Title
Hummingbird and Creosote Blooming
Artist
Judy Kennedy
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Photograph - Photo
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This is an artistic rendering of a photograph taken on New Year’s Eve - 2018. It’s one of the many Costa’s Hummingbirds that frequent my land in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. Creosote (Larrea tridentata), a native plant that males tiny white fuzzy seeds that transform into tiny yellow five-petaled flowers several times a year. They are beautiful and feed many desert critters. It is considered a large shrub, but can get just as tall as a tree, and smells so sweet right after a rain — glistening with the drops of water that cling to the leaves. Leaves have medicinal qualities — making a tea that with honey is not as bitter as when taken alone. Recent scientific studies found they contain an antioxidant which may be helpful in treating malignant melanomas. Creosote bushes can live to about 100 years old, producing clones in huge circular patterns living older than any other living thing on Earth.
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January 12th, 2019
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