If I had more time and space, I'd expand this blog to cover all of the important natural history events of each and every day I managed to get outside for a trek... and that would have meant that I'd have noted the grand opening of the Pinxter, a species of wild azalea known to botantists as Rhododendron periclymenoides, five days ago. But time is in short supply, and because the charge I set for myself limits me to one item, more or less, and one photo, most of the time, the 20th, which marked the floral debut for R. periclymenoides, was given over to a consideration of something else: the start of corn field plowing. Life is arbitrary and filled with too many choices. Fortunately, the weather has remained cool and wet, so the Pinxter flowers have not been inclined to disappear. In fact, they're prime and gorgeous, much to the delight of the bumblebees... and the photographers.