Photos from Jim Conrad´s Naturalist Newsletter
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PSITTACANTHUS in tree in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico	PSITTACANTHUS flowers in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clouds at dawn over Brownsville, Texas	The Rio Grande between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros,Tamaulipas, Mexico	Mesquite, PROSOPIS JULIFLORA	Jerusalem-thorn, PARKINSONIA ACULEATA
Street trees in Brownsville, Texas	Texas Olive, CORDIA BOISSIERI	Washington Palm, genus WASHINGTONIA	ATARNES SALLEI, Orange-spotted Skipper, in Jalpan, Querétaro, México	La Trinidad, Querétaro, México	Blue tortilla with traditional hot sauce at La Trinidad, Querétaro, México
Ranger station at Nevado Toluca, Mexico	Scene on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	Clumpgrass on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	Thistle on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	clumpgrass, maybe Trisetum, on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	clumpgrass, maybe Trisetum, on Nevado Toluca, Mexico
ERYNGIUM MONOCEPHALUM on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	ERYNGIUM cf. CARLINAE on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	ERYNGIUM cf COLUMNARE on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	Lupine on Nevado Toluca, Mexico	PENSTEMON cf. GENTIANOIDES	Heaving ice on Nevado Toluca, Mexico
CIOAC slogans at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	CIOAC sign at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	gardener's Calla, ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	gardener's Calla, ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Ocote at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	sign at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Testing a turkey to see if it's ready to lay an egg, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Turkey nest at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Turkey eggs at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Turkey feather at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	PHASEOLUS COCCINEUS flowers at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	PHASEOLUS COCCINEUS beans at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
PHASEOLUS COCCINEUS flowers at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Lemon Grass, CYMBOPOGON, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	CALLIANDRA cf. HOUSTONIANA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Chili pepper at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Black Tupelo, also called Blackgum, NYSSA SYLVATICA, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	MONOTROPA UNIFLORA, Indian Pipe, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Bracken, or Brake, PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM	Bracken, or Brake, PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM	LOBELIA LAXIFLORA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	LOBELIA LAXIFLORA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	ROSE-OF-CHINA, HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS	GRINDING PINOLE at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Pinole mixture at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	The perfect tortilla, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	CLOTHES-WASHING TROUGH at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	rainy day at the market in Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, Chiapas, MÉXICO	Greta annette -- White-spotted Clearwing, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	QUERCUS cf CANDICANS at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
bromeliads inside a Quercus candicans at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Salvia flowers at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Eastern Hophornbeam at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	CORNUS DISCIFLORA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Honeybee robbing nectar from a salvia flower at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Sceloporus taeniocnemis or SCELOPORUS SERRIFER at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
CROTON DRACO at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	red sap of CROTON DRACO at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	PHLEBODIUM cf. AUREUM, Hares-foot-fern, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Crinum Lilies at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Crinum Lily at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	MELAMPODIUM at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Mystery picture at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Black Coffee-Snake, NINIA DIADEMATA, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Skunk tracks at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Lantana fruits at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	ERIOBOTRYA JAPONICA, loquat or níspero fruits	ERIOBOTRYA JAPONICA, loquat or níspero fruits
ANODA HASTATA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	view across the valley at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Nosegay at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	MIMOSA ALBA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Ramón, BROSIMUM ALICASTRUM, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	coffee beans drying in street at Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, Chiapas, MÉXICO
boy with blackberry in Coapilla, Chiapas, Mexico	Landslide on Gulf Slope in Chiapas, Mexico	Member of Melastoma Family at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	African Tulip Tree, SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA	African Tulip Tree, SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA, flower	cf. RHYNCHOSTELE BICTONIENSIS at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Epidendron radicans at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	FAN-LIKE MOSSES at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Oreopanax at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Oreopanax's digitally compound leaves at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Oreopanax umbels at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Flowering Canna at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
Canna leaf with holes at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Bent cornstalks at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	animal ravaged ear of corn at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Dew on leaf at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Weed flowers at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	BIDENS AUREA at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico
SENNA cf HIRSUTA flowers and leaves at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	SENNA cf HIRSUTA flower at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Cherimoya, ANNONA CHERIMOLA, at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico	Sweetgum leaves at Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico

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