Last Thursday, thanks to certification by people who obviously don’t know me at the Universal Life Church (though henceforth I…
I am always excited to find any of the woodpeckers (including flickers and sapsuckers) and Picadae is probably my favorite…
I recently made a trip up to the Timberline Lodge area of Mt. Hood, and one of my primary objectives…
This spittlebug showed up at my lights when I was camping near a wet meadow in Skamania County, Washington. I…
I had no idea until I started researching this that they had revised the taxonomy and nomenclature of toads (in fact…
When I first saw this wasp resting on a Western Hemlock (which I might not have even noticed if I…
Next up for the conifers is our first spruce. Engelmann Spruce is actually a very easy tree to identify. First…
Next up on our tour of our native conifers is Juniperus communis (with the common names common juniper, dwarf juniper, and mountain…
I’m going to take a brief break from talking about conifers in my plant posts, to address one of my…
When I decided to learn about the conifers I thought finding a Pacific Yew (also known as western yew) would…