Saturday, April 25, 2009 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
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Trailing Four O'clock, South Monticello Area, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM, April 25, 2009
Trailing Four O'clock
From Wikipedia: Allionia, commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two species widespread in the western hemisphere. They are unusual in their blooms, which actually consist of three separate flowers appearing to be a single flower.
Night camp
Site 32, South Monticello Point - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
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- List the nights I've camped here
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Vision, Novelty and Fear
Animals see more intense contrasts of light and dark because their night vision is so much better than ours. Good night vision involves excellent vision for contrasts and relatively poor color vision.