Headed North!
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
Quick and dirty.
This past week was a busy one with the launch of our summer project – Backyard Biology 2016, a crowdsourced natural inventory of our community! Residents and visitors to the …
A peek in the woods….
A few weeks ago we pulled over to take a picture of a quite beautiful patch of blooming Epigaea repens. As we were walking back to the Jeep, Keith peeked up …
The spring ephemerals continue…
Find the habitat, find the plants. That’s a good Keith quote. Our friend Parker from White Mountain Mushrooms suggested we try a spot that he had scoped out earlier, and it …
The spring ephemerals have sprung!
It’s around this time of year that folks to the south and west of us start sharing pictures of spring ephemerals, the glorious first blooms of spring! Spring ephemerals are …
Fairy shrimp. Just fairy shrimp.
Goal for last weekend – fairy shrimp! Neither Keith nor I had ever seen one, but fairy shrimp are an indicator species of vernal pools and the to-do list for the …
