Reaching for the sky before it dies

The blue agave goes out on a high note.

When I left Santa Barbara in November 2014, the blue agave growing within the Las Agave complex I was visiting was large but not remarkable. Just an ordinary agave. But something dramatic happened by the time I returned here in May 2015. It had sprouted an awesome 18-foot green stalk rising skyward from its midst. The stalk was growing at a … Read the rest