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Mrs. Orca and I stopped at snake heaven on our bike ride today and found even more snakes out, many of them mating. Puget Sound garter snake, Olympia, Washington
carried by the wind
nature sings a solemn song
mountains cut the sky
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa.
Just a snap of the road leading to our house. I love driving (or walking) into the forest. Both sides of the road are plentiful with mountain laurel and rhododendrons growing wild including an assortment of trees. It's very peaceful and quiet and I rarely run into anyone else. There's only 6 houses back this way and even tho it's a public road, at the top of the mountain it turns into a jeep road.
Still Here
by Langston Hughes
I been scarred and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,
Looks like between ’em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’–
But I don’t care!
I’m still here!
I was walking by the pond and out of all the frogs that jumped in, this guy was content to stay on the rocks. He seemed amiable to having his picture taken, so I took the opportunity.
Another endemic somehow thriving in the alpine zone of the Pirin Mountains. Ferdinand's Saxifrage (Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi), on the Five Mountains Trail (E4) near the summit of Banski Suhodol (2884m), Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria.
After a decent stretch with lows around or below freezing, today we hit 60°F for the first time this year. I walked down to snake heaven to see if the snakes noticed and found a half dozen or so that had slithered out--about two weeks earlier than last year--from wherever they were hibernating to enjoy the sunshine. Most of them were quite small, like this one, which was about pencil thick. Puget Sound garter snake, Olympia, Washington.