On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
After weeks of steadily disappearing snow in the high country, I was a little surprised to look out my window this morning and see fresh snow on the Arrowhead Peak of Mt. Verstovia. It appeared that snow levels dropped to around 3000 feet overnight, which was not expected (by me, anyway). A walk through the … Read more
I was tempted to make this a quiz, but anyone who bothered to look at the image filenames could pretty much see the answer, so I’ll go ahead and forgo that approach in this case. I think it was in 2012 that I watched a yellow-jacket doing something on a wooden (probably cedar) lamp post … Read more
I checked in on the extra red red huckleberry I previously posted on while walking at the park today. I was interested to see the leaves were still somewhat red, though mostly they were green, as was the new stem growth. This suggests to me that it’s more likely the reddening occurs sometime other than … Read more
I was a little surprised (and a touch excited) to see this striking, boldly patterned black and white moth fly in front of me and land on some dirt in my yard the other evening as I headed out. I grabbed a container and was able to catch it. Last year was the first time … Read more
This photo from early April was one of the many photos I dealt with today. When I took the shot, I failed to check the settings and ended up with a very over exposed and blurred image. While looking at it today, I was intrigued with it, and did a little processing to bring back … Read more
I was interested to see that an American Swordgrass Moth (Xylena nupera) had been attracted to the light last night. I haven’t seen one of these too many times (though we did raise one up from a caterpillar), and when I checked saw that I had not done the full photo treatment of one, so … Read more