On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
I did not spend much time outside today, as not only are Thursdays the most scheduled day of my week, but my dad is coming in this evening, so we needed to get things ready for his arrival. Contrary to forecast, I woke up to see the sun shining on the neighbor’s house and blue … Read more
American Robin Alarm Calls A couple of weeks ago I was headed down to Totem Park and noticed the high frequency down slurring call of an American Robin’s aerial predator alarm. After watching a robin nest in my yard get cleaned out by a raven last year, and coming to realize a little better the … Read more
After weeks of steadily disappearing snow in the high country, I was a little surprised to look out my window this morning and see fresh snow on the Arrowhead Peak of Mt. Verstovia. It appeared that snow levels dropped to around 3000 feet overnight, which was not expected (by me, anyway). A walk through the … Read more
I was tempted to make this a quiz, but anyone who bothered to look at the image filenames could pretty much see the answer, so I’ll go ahead and forgo that approach in this case. I think it was in 2012 that I watched a yellow-jacket doing something on a wooden (probably cedar) lamp post … Read more
I checked in on the extra red red huckleberry I previously posted on while walking at the park today. I was interested to see the leaves were still somewhat red, though mostly they were green, as was the new stem growth. This suggests to me that it’s more likely the reddening occurs sometime other than … Read more
One a recent trip to Low Island, I noticed and photographed a couple of conspicuously different rocks along a part of the shore that consisted mostly of watermelon-sized basalt rocks. The two different ones appeared to be graywacke like is common along the Sitka road system (though of course I am not sure that’s where … Read more