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• Seeing Red Cloud

  

  Can you see them? those spectral wagons winding down, ruffling the grass?Can you hear them? those murmurs and whispers, sounding like the wind?They’re coming,... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 OUTDOORS

• Reading the Rocks of Scotts Bluff

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Saddle Rock... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2018 OUTDOORS

• Our Earliest Bloomer

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} American... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 OUTDOORS

• Little to Report Except Really Weird Weather

  

  Overwintering boxelder, Acer negundo, in Laramie, Wyoming, USA.Habitat.Last Sunday I made my monthly visit to the tree I’m following—a boxelder growing in a... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2018 OUTDOORS

• Photosynthesis to the Rescue?

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Every morning... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2017 OUTDOORS

• Guest Post: The Cactus Field(s) of Sheep Mountain

  

  [Many thanks to Larry Haimowitz for this contribution! See bio at end of post.] p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color:... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2017 OUTDOORS

• Tree Following, Road Following

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Boxelder... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2017 OUTDOORS

• Quercity—Thoughts on Oaks

  

  Coast live oaks, Quercus agrifolia, in the California Coast Range. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000;... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2017 OUTDOORS

• Boxelder—pest, Pleaser, Or Provider?

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Yesterday I... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2017 OUTDOORS

• Confronting Original Horizontality on the Poison Spider Road

  

  “I have seen that the earth is composed of layers superimposed on each other at an angle to the horizon.” Nicolas Steno, circa 1671 (all quoted words below are... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2017 OUTDOORS

• Happy Halloween!

  

  Did you know Jack O'Lanterns evolved from a turnip lantern carried by a rejected soul? More here, from Mental Floss. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 OUTDOORS

• Goodbye Sabalites ... Hello Boxelder?

  

  If I had an extra $85,000 (64,000 £), I could have Sabalites right here in my own home! Then I wouldn’t need to travel (5-foot slab, Denver rock show; photo... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2017 OUTDOORS

• Castle Gardens Art & the Missing Turtle

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} What’s the... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2017 OUTDOORS

• Common Junipers at Castle Gardens

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Not what you... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2017 OUTDOORS

• Wyoming's Exotic and Enigmatic Phonolite

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Folks, it’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2017 OUTDOORS

• Tree of the Month: My Old Friend the Pussy Willow

  

  View from the rim.p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning:... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 OUTDOORS

• Succumbing to the Siren’s Song (eclipse-viewing in Wyoming)

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Eclipse statio... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2017 OUTDOORS

• Why We’re Here (geology is Destiny)

  

  Laramie, Wyoming (Territory) circa 1868: Union Pacific Railroad machine shops (USGS).[In 1881, an unhappy Bill Nye quit his job with the Laramie Daily... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2017 OUTDOORS

• Tree of the Month: the Poison Nut Tree

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Poison Nut... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2017 OUTDOORS

• Waylaid by Wildflowers

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} In late May,... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2017 OUTDOORS