We all, well most of us, enjoy a delicious bowl of fresh strawberries, maybe with ice cream. In spring I start by imagining the small plants making a carpet on the ground bursting with dainty white flowers.
In spite of the sunny, warmish days, and the appearance of early spring flowers in the valleys, winter is not quite over. On the high trails and in the mountain meadows patches of snow still linger, and the cold nights and chilly ground still caution the timid wildflowers against emerging too soon from their cozy retreats just beneath the protecting surface of the ground.
This week’s crawly is a mix-n-match, meet the Black-chinned X Anna’s Hummingbird hybrid.
As I continue to chip away at the Himalayan blackberry in my yard…
If you missed the previous Rogue on the topic, you may want to go read that first.
It’s no small project and it will take several weeks
I went to the No Kings rally in Medford last Saturday, not so much for politics but the spectacle. I went to the one last summer and was thoroughly entertained by the clever signs, the costumes, the musicians and singers. It was one big festival of people of all ages, ethnicities, religions in a wondrous display of First Amendment rights.
Last week we learned about jackrabbits and hares, this week it’s all about the bunnies! Oregon has four rabbit species: Mountain and eastern cottontails, brush rabbits and pygmy rabbits.
Every spring when I was growing up, Mother would declare it was time for a hike to see the wildflowers in the nearby San Miguel Canyon at the base of Mount Diablo.
Getting up at midnight to set off on a 2-day excursion makes going to bed hardly worthwhile, but the nature of the excursion can make disruption of our customary way of doing things seem less than trivial.
This week we’re going to go on a crawly egg hunt! Anyone can find a brightly colored Easter Egg (okay, unless they have an uncle like mine who put a silver dollar in a blue plastic egg then dropped it into the swimming pool), but we’re going hunting for arthropod eggs!