Botanizing

I found a great place to botanize to my heart’s content–a burned area from the ’88 fires with a stream running through it.  I’m working hard on learning as many new flowers and plants in my area as I can.  There are, though, quite a lot of plants that aren’t in my selection of books. [...]

A Rare Treat

Early this morning I noticed the cow moose I saw a few days ago lying by the meadow/forest interface.  I glassed her and saw, to my surprise, she had a little calf with her.  I watched them both for about 45 minutes.  What a treat! And the last treat:  Yesterday on a hike I stumbled [...]

A surprise walk

Its starting to feel like the Canadian Rockies here, raining every day, even if just a little bit.  Last fall I had driven up an old fire road that’s usually closed.  I wasn’t sure if they only opened it in the fall for hunters, so I took a drive over there, and sure enough, the [...]

Wildflowers, Geology, and the Chugwater formation

More wildflowers.  Its so green here, everywhere.  Won’t last long, this is the West you know.  I took a hike in the Clark’s Fork basin area where the beautiful Chugwater formation of red sandstone juts angled out from the surrounding ground.  This is the remnants of an ancient sea.  Fossils can be found embedded in [...]

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