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…
This past weekend Pam was asked to water for a friend who was out of town. Since we live in…
When I found these grasses on the Cowlitz River dike the first thing I noticed was that the inflorescence was…
The first time I ever found this species I was hiking out to Warrior Rock Lighthouse on Sauvie Island, outside…
I’m sure many parents and hikers, and especially pet owners, are not fond of this species (which goes by a…
I have to admit that, because they are often nocturnal and shy, I know very little about the small mammals…
Due, I’m assuming, to our cool and abnormally wet spring, it has not been a banner year for Iris tenax.Though I…
I was excited to have two male (though no female) Odonteus obesus come to my lights whilst mothing on the…
Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) get all of the press because they are huge, beautiful, shade providing, moss and lichen and…