Wondering about wild grapes

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Wondering about the culpret and hoodoos.

My wife has been having some irritation to her eyes and nose from a fragrance near our house.  This time of year a bush that grows around my property is in full bloom.  It just so happens that we have one of them that hangs over our steps to the deck and we pass right by it everytime we go out or come in.  Here are a couple of pictures of it:


The above picture shows that it and the grape vines are intruding onto out steps.  Guess I will have to start pruning before they take over the house!  This next clsoe-up picture shows that the flowers, although they have a very pungent smell, look really pretty:



Jill of http://jillgoes.blogspot.com/ gave a list of words and their meanings.  One word was "hoodoo".  How many of you have seen the great hoodoos of Brice Canyon?  I, so far, have not had the pleasure and by looking at pictures, I can tell that they are magnificant!!  Of course south west Texas had to have some of their own.  They are not nearly as great as the ones in Utah, but hey, you got to give Texas credit for trying. . .

Here are some pictures I took while in the Davis Mountains State Park.  These are not brightly colored and not as thin and tall, but I think that they could be called hoodoos, dont' you?


And another view:



 And one more:

                

Don't forget, you can pick on the pictures to enlarge then.  The last one above has some fairly tall ones right in lower front of the picture.  This area also has the highest point in Texas.  Since my place is only a little over a hundred feet above sea level, most everything is up from here.  Now, you all have a great day, you hear?

12 comments:

  1. Thanks for all your hoodoo voodoo.

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  2. I think Utah has the best hoodoos too. I haven't seen them in a while, so I need to route myself through Utah, maybe when I come back to Sac in the late fall.

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  3. That looks like an interesting place too. I suppose you could think of them as hoodoos. You should look in that book you have, and find out for us where the word "hoodoo" came from.

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  4. I had to look it up and was surprised to find that Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8749 feet, is only about 110 miles away from Davis Mountains State Park. I thought it was more like 250 miles but that is road miles. Thanks for getting me to get that straight in my head. Have fun.

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  5. The Bisti Wilderness up in the SW area of New Mexico has great hoodoos. They're downright spooky when you first see them. Is your fragrant bush by any chance a mock orange?

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  6. Sixbears, you are welcome. Got any spells you want cast?

    Gypsy, I sure would like to get to see the ones in Utah. They are the real Hoodoos.

    Jill, I looked in the book and all it had was the other meaning, you no black majic. I couldn't find where it came from.

    Barney, in the Day Tripper show on TV, they climbed the highest peak in Texas. It has a trail. That is kinda cheating, right?

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  7. Dizzy that plant with the white blooms is a privet hedge if you want a nice hedge plant about 3 feet apart and keep them shaped look on Google image.

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    1. Thanks for the information. What ever it is, I don't need it. It is mixed in with wild grape vines. I will have to do a lot of trimming real soon. They are taking over.

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  9. The mold count here is high, I feel for your wife. I had never heard of hoodoos, now I have heard, whoda you think you are?

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    1. I bet the mold count is higher here. So now you know what a hoodoo is. WhoDo is better English but whoda is Pennsytuckian, right?

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  10. I do give Texas credit for trying, and you too, but what you showed in the pictures are not hoodoos. Interesting rock formations I'll grant you that, but not hoodoos.

    Hoodoos are thin spires of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland and typically consist of relatively soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects each column from the elements. They have a variable thickness often described as having a "totem pole-shaped body."

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