Category Weekly Columns

To kick off our Halloween season Crawlies theme, this week we revisit the western toad (Anaxyrus boreas).

The western toad is a critter you just gotta love, warts and all!

In a previous Spooky Season Rogue I talked about my October Gamefest wherein I download tons of older video games – all appropriately goth and spooky – and really get into the season.

A typical day for me begins early but slowly. For example, my furry, four-legged feline is up with the sun and on my bed between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. I can’t remember the last time I ever needed to use an alarm clock. He’ll jump up on the bed, walk up my chest, purring loudly and smack me in the face with his paw to wake me up.

Kicking off our Halloween themed All Things Oregon we’re going to explore some real-life Oregon examples of two classically popular Halloween costumes: Pirates and cowboys.

Here we have another plant whose name and classification have undergone changes in the last twelve years. As a botanist I have worked with the early days of molecular DNA analysis. This has added so much to many of the puzzles that faced plant systemists over the last couple of centuries.

Don’t let this week’s crawly’s sweet countenance fool you! These pretty, bitty moths have a childhood fueled by death and deception.

Over the past couple of weeks Binx has started sprouting some white hairs. Okay, a LOT of white hairs.

Wondering if these would be temporary or permanent, I hit the internet to explore cat coat genetics.

Last week I saw myself turn 70.  What most people don’t know is that while my birth date was on the 22nd, my first wife’s birthday was a day later on the 23rd, just two years apart. This made for a great two-day birthday party in our younger days before we had children.