It has been a banner year for swallowtails! Seems that I see either Pale Swallowtails or Western Tiger Swallowtails everywhere…
Probably almost everyone reading this has had at least one painful encounter with stinging nettles, and has hopefully already learned…
This was another interesting yard bug that I found when I tagged along whilst Pam watered for her friend. There…
I don’t often find Frangula purshiana (also known as cascara buckthorn, bearberry, cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, coffee-tree) in isolated spots where…
When I found these grasses on the Cowlitz River dike the first thing I noticed was that the inflorescence was…
I’m sure many parents and hikers, and especially pet owners, are not fond of this species (which goes by a…
Due, I’m assuming, to our cool and abnormally wet spring, it has not been a banner year for Iris tenax.Though I…
Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) get all of the press because they are huge, beautiful, shade providing, moss and lichen and…
The fact that this is my first click beetle (Elateridae) profile is much more revealing about my laziness in identification…
After 4 straight animal posts (3 of them vertebrates), I thought I’d turn to the botanical world for this profile.…