Thanks! Here is an old thread about the bowling ball and other things for the garden.
The thread "My Bowling ball art" in
Garden Art forum
I have a book on desert wildflowers of NM. It shows plants that look like mine and call them Abronia villosa. It does say that in higher altitudes of NM there are other species of it. I'm at 6500 ft elevation, so maybe mine is a different one. Will have to try to find out.
