Sunday, May 29, 2016

Reminiscing--Hiking the Costa Rican Rainforest

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Thirty years ago yesterday, I was picked up at the end of a backpack trip in the Costa Rican rain forest. I grew up in suburbia, it wa...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Plant Story--the Dramatic Larkspurs

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You hike the trail casually glancing into the brush and then, ooh! a bright blue spike of flowers catches the eye!  Larkspur! larkspur, ...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Visiting Northern Colorado--Horsetooth Mountain Park in Sunshine

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Five days later (see last week's blog ) I revisited Horsetooth Waterfall Trail, this time on a sunny morning after three days of warm...
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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Visiting Northern Colorado--Horsetooth Mountain Park in Spring Snow

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Horsetooth Mountain Park trail, in falling snow April 28. I needed to check out the trailside plants of Horsetooth Mountain Park, on the...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Visiting Australia—Glorious Kakadu National Park

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Being in the Southern Hemisphere, the northern end of Australia is the warmest. In the lands east of Darwin on the northern coast, t...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Plant Story--Flowering Shrub of Spring, Amelanchier, Serviceberry, Saskatoon

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A shimmer of white in my front yard: the serviceberry is flowering! You might call it shadbush like my parents did, or saskatoon, as t...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Visiting Baja California—Amazing Plants

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island: Gulf of California We set off for the Whales and Wildness cruise in the Gulf of California with Lindblad/National  Geographic (...
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