Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Last week (August 31, 2022) I was up in the San Juan Mountains at about 10,500 feet, scouting for mushrooms in the Spruce-Fir forest. I was walking through a wet meadow when I saw a tiny creature hopping near my…
The monsoon rains have come, and I’ve been spending quite a bit of time watching tadpoles in temporary desert ponds and pools. Most of the pools I’ve found this year have not been in my usual cattle tanks and silty mud…
I was on a hike the other day in a Ponderosa Pine forest in Southwestern Colorado, at about 7000′. There were a number of small Gambel Oak seedlings in the trail, and some of their leaves had a line of…
In early June of this year, I was up in the San Juan Mountains, checking cattle tanks for Tiger Salamanders. There were lots of Salamanders – and also Damselflies. The Damselflies were mating and just generally flitting and darting just…
A week or so ago, Laurie and I watched a movie called The Truffle Hunters. It was a movie about some Italian folks who had trained their dogs to find Truffles – a type of subterranean fungus. This film inspired…
It’s early August 2022 here, and the weather has been hot. I’ve been trying to take Jack the Hound out for hikes in the cooler mornings. We’ve been walking a set of trails that are close to our house. The…
I brought a few Tiger Salamander larvae home a couple of weeks ago (July 5, 2022). I was planning to use a photo-aquarium to get a better look at some of the Leeches on the Tiger Salamander larvae. Photographic the…
A couple of weeks ago, on July 4, 2022, I came across a big female Bullfrog sitting out in the yard. I was doing my morning chicken-chores, and there she was. Sitting there like some sort of garden gnome.