On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Connor and I went on a short hike up to Heart Lake on Sunday. It looks like work has started to put in around the north side of the lake. A swath of brush had been cut a short distance from the lake edge. This presumably is meant to be part of the Thimbleberry to … Read more
Melissa noticed some sort of beetle that was in our house and asked me to get it. When I picked it up, it made a snapping noise and I could feel it making a folding type motion. When I tossed it outside, it landed on its back and then it snapped. It popped three or … Read more
I twisted apart a few more spruce cones today. I did not find any more with worms, but I did find one that had a long skinny black beetle looking insect. Perhaps the worm I noticed previously is a larval stage of the insect I saw today.
[originally written in paper journal and subsequently published on my older site] I am still a little tired from yesterday, so I decided to just go up the road behind the gravel pond off Indian River Road and then cut over to Indian River Trail. It must have been pretty dry here for the last … Read more
