Happy Solsticemas 2022
May the Coming Year treat You And Yours With gentle Kindness. Remember that Raven Claus giveth, But Raven Claws taketh away. Has the year truly roared by so quickly?
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
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Woodhouse’s Toad in a Slickrock Pool
On 29th of July, 2022, I was out roaming in Southeastern Utah. Our Summer monsoon rains had started a few weeks earlier, and I was hoping to find Spadefoot Toads. As I walked along a broad slickrock drainage, I found…
Tarantula Time in Southwestern Colorado
It’s that time of year again, when the male Grand Canyon Black Tarantulas roam the desert floor, searching for love and affection. The newspapers like to refer to this annual mate-search as a “Tarantula Migration”. That term has a nice…
Thistledown Velvet Ant – Dasymutilla pseudopappus
Yesterday (2022-10-23) I was walking along a trail in Southwestern Colorado, at an elevation of about 6200′. As I looked down, I saw a bit of white fluff in the middle of the trail, one that was moving of its…
Terrestrial Garter Snakes (Thamnophis elegans)
In the afternoon, Jack the Hound and I usually walk down the driveway to check the mail. And on three of the last four days, I’ve found a Terrestrial Garter Snake stretched out in the sun, either on the gravel…
Tumbleweed Shield Lichen
I first saw these strange organisms on a patch of bare rock next to a trail at the Carpenter Natural Area in Cortez, CO. They were obviously Lichens, but they weren’t attached to the ground. They were scattered in loose…
Fuligo septica – Dog Vomit Slime Mold
In early September of last year (2021), Laurie noticed some strange growths on a the surface of a layer of old hay. The growths were raised white nodules of about an inch in diameter, nestled in a dense layer of…