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I wondered if you would notice that it does a jag up to Brattleboro. I don’t expect any real planning to happen until I’m sitting around in Portland getting bored, but I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me. If the snow is finally gone, that is.
4 years agoAm I seeing a route that passes through southern Vermont? That's exciting! Let me know how I can help!
4 years agoTrike!
4 years agoWow! All those bike paths! Nothing like that here in the Vancouver area that I'm aware of. Every paved, separated bike path here is in the city, and mostly in the City of Vancouver as opposed to the various other municipalities in the region.
4 years agoIs that a juniper?
4 years agoOK, either you've mastered photoshop to enhance the sky color or it's been so long since I've seen a sky like that that I've become skeptical.
4 years agoAlso some species of Ephedra lower left and upper right.
https://wildflowersearch.org/search?oldstate=gms%3A9%3Bgmc%3A37.078%2C-113.537%3Blocation%3A1755+Rockcress+Dr%2C+St.+George%2C+UT+84790%2C+USA%3Belev%3A2823%3Bcat%3AS%3B&buttonName=none&hab=&Elev=&Submit=Submit+Values&PlantName=Ephedra+
Perhaps, except it feels just a bit undignified. Buttocks? This subject merits just a bit more respect, don’t you think?
4 years agoHey, it looks just right. And thanks for the reference; I’ll have to save it off and experiment with it. I especially like the range map - it shows that we’re in one of the hot spots for this species.
4 years agoLikely plains prickly pear.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=892
Another reference. The best plant ID site for N. America I've found.
https://wildflowersearch.org/search?oldstate=gms%3A10%3Bgmc%3A37.157%2C-113.492%3Blocation%3AWashington%2C+UT%2C+USA%3Belev%3A3245%3Bcat%3AX%3B&buttonName=none&hab=&Elev=&PlantName=&S__19726.x=78&S__19726.y=125
It was a reptile pet shop. But common lizards like side blotched and ornate tree lizards were sent to a biological supply house. I had more than my share of pet snakes and lizards over the years. Most died, with today's much more extensive knowledge of reptilian diseases, it is likely due to a combination of parasite load and stress. I did have a long nosed snake and a glossy snake for several years before I gave them up to a friend when I left home for ASU. I ate fried rattlesnake several times. Never tried a harmless snake. It was quite good. And it was when I left AZ in the early 70s I found out about nettles. Still nip the soft growing tips as I walk trails... but only the tips! (Unless I have gloves and something to boil them in.)
4 years agoThat's a brilliant limerick, even if I am biased.
4 years agoNo haven’t seen it, or heard of it either before now. It sounds worth a look, but we have to make it through three more seasons of our current addiction first, Call My Agent.
4 years agoWhat did he buy them for - to feed his pet roadrunner? Those poor lizards. It reminds me that I terrorized our local garter snakes, making pets out of them (and to my mother’s horror, they would sometimes escape in the house). It also reminds me of a time when I was a camp counselor in the San Juan Islands- we took the boys on a survival overnight and had fried garter snakes for dinner, along butter clams and boiled nettles. Good times. I wasn’t invited back for a second season, oddly enough.
4 years ago
Good counting, math whiz! Included especially with you in mind.
4 years ago