Hanging On Well Into Winter

Even if they were far and few between, I was a bit surprised by the number of flowers still blooming last Thursday before the deep freeze arrived. All of them except the White Sweetclover were in the Compositea Family: Common and Maximilian Sunflowers, Mexican Hat, Spiny Aster, Camphorweed and one lone Goldenrod. All had survived the light freezes of December.

One Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera) in particular caught the sun at just the right angle:

This set of photographs was taken along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River at the Roosevelt Park Trailhead on Thursday, January 2, 2014.