Hollis
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In the Company of Plants and Rocks
http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/
Natural history blog focusing on botany, ecology and geology ... from the field as much as possible!
LATEST ARTICLES ( 431 )
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Devils Tower—What’s on Top? (updated)
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Posted on 15 November 2016 OUTDOORS -
Back to the Misty Mountain
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Posted on 11 November 2016 OUTDOORS -
Surprise Geo-hike in the Eastern Uinta Mountains
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Posted on 04 November 2016 OUTDOORS -
Evolution of a Storyteller
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Several weeks ago, I was set... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2016 OUTDOORS -
Plant on a Pedestal
Awe-inspiring!This month I’m making an oblique and tenuous segue from Tree-Following, for I have no news to report of my serviceberry. After a long vacation, al... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2016 OUTDOORS -
Glacial Beauty in the High Uintas
Glacial-sculpted quartzite in the high Uinta Mountains (answer to recent Geo-challenge).Fifty years ago this fall, I chose a topic for my first science paper. Read more
Posted on 05 October 2016 OUTDOORS -
Geo-challenge: Range? Rock? Process?
Where is this immense gallery of scratched and polished carvings? Who was the sculptor? What was the clay?Ideas, answers? Please add a Comment below. A post wil... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2016 OUTDOORS -
Of Quartzite and Lily Pads
Hayden Peak, constructed of sandstone and quartzite masonry on a Cyclopean scale.“… the view of one of these mountain lakes, with its deep-green water and fring... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2016 OUTDOORS -
A Tree and a Rock
This month I have no news about the serviceberry I’m following. I’m far from home, in a warmer drier land. So instead, here’s a report of a tree I came across o... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2016 OUTDOORS -
Stromatolite Pilgrimage
Mecca!Stromatolite Hike, my seventh post, was the one that got me hooked on blogging. It was the first one I was pleased with. Read more
Posted on 01 September 2016 OUTDOORS -
Beach-combing 11,000 Feet Above Sea Level
My old friend Sparky, on an early Proterozoic beach in southeast Wyoming.West of Laramie, Highway 130 crosses the rolling grasslands of the valley bottom for... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2016 OUTDOORS -
The Night's Alluring Advertising
Oenothera nuttallii.I awoke in the middle of the night to a powerful fragrance emanating from the kitchen—a mix of jasmine and wintergreen and the benzyl... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2016 OUTDOORS -
Trees on a Fold
“Forest” on Hutton Lake, next to pale sandstone outcrops. Pattern on lake is windblown waves.Intent on following my serviceberry tree, neglected since March, I... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2016 OUTDOORS -
Fecund Fireweed’s Far-flung Seeds
0.065-0.069, 9, 40, 81, 80,000 and 8,980,000—just a few of fireweed’s impressive numbers.Last week I visited the railroad garden west of my house, and... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2016 OUTDOORS -
Beauty Amid Destruction
Year #25, dog #3. For 25 years we’ve walked the dirt road to the river—a morning ritual. It runs along railroad tracks that serviced the old packing sheds. Read more
Posted on 26 July 2016 OUTDOORS -
What’s Your Pleasure? South Pass City Or Miner’s Delight?
In 1868, a gold rush hit the southern Wind River Mountains. Hundreds of men infected by gold fever poured into the gulches, staking claims. Read more
Posted on 17 July 2016 OUTDOORS -
Should There Be Trees Where Once There Were None—even Though Once (as Now)...
Cottonwoods, boxelder and willow along the Laramie River at Fort Laramie, on a hot day in 2016.In southeast Wyoming, on the Laramie River just above the... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2016 OUTDOORS -
Yermo--a Flamboyant and Mysterious Rare Plant
Wyoming high desert with red indian paintbrush, blue larkspur, and lots of yellow flowers (in foreground; click on image to view). But where's yermo? Read more
Posted on 06 July 2016 OUTDOORS -
Plants & Rocks: South Pass Rockcress, South Pass Granite
The lineup.At the southern end of the Wind River Mountains near South Pass—where thousands of travelers on the old Oregon Trail crossed the Continental Divide... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2016 OUTDOORS -
Granite with the Appearance of Irregular Lumps of Clay
I spent last week on the southern edge of North America. But I wasn’t surfing or beach-combing or sipping margaritas on white sand by a sparkling blue-green sea. Read more
Posted on 26 June 2016 OUTDOORS