Yearling Gators sunning on the log.

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A short but tough climb up Wildcat Mountain leads to lots of old fieldstone fences, little streams, a homestead and some interesting rock formations.

Is it not wonderful to find icy puddles that are not solid, but have a bit of hollow white in them, so you know that you can crush them, and gleefully listen to that crushy-ice ice-crushing noise?

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This is Cameron Lake at the end of May. It is a 20 minute drive from the village

Got to hike with good friends, my wonderful mother and my 22-month old son at the beautiful Falls Ridge Preserve in Ellett Valley, Virginia.

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Descending down the bluff toward the planting site with dibble stick and flats of seedlings.

Taken at the Robert Y. Pratt Preserve in Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve.

April 4, 2009

Cedar Hollow

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There was lots of bear scat here. They probably love the blueberries.

Lower Table Rock, BLM, Jackson County, Oregon USA

Forestry conference Bangkok, Thailand

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Me sitting in a hilltop meadow of wildflowers, happy to receive such a gorgeous reward after the steep climb up McCall Point. Mt. Hood is just visible to the right of my shoulder.

Tom McCall Preserve near Hood River, Oregon

Wildcat Mountain, Nature Conservancy site in northwest Virginia

Bison crossing, US Mexico border, Nature Conservancy,

The green green green of the canyon floor is almost virulent compared to the rocky hills surrounding it.

Bison crossing, US Mexico border, Nature Conservancy,

Artists' Palette at Los Rios Ranch, Oak Glen CA

Two Children and Deer, Ramsey Canyon, Arizona

by Lyle Ford

Eastern Towhee

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

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Got to hike with good friends, my wonderful mother and my 22-month old son at the beautiful Falls Ridge Preserve in Ellett Valley, Virginia.

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From the Eshqua Bog Natural Area in Hartland, Vermont.

Ramsey Canyon Deer and Fawn, Arizona

by Lyle Ford

The Pasque (or prairie smoke, prairie crocus, or cutleaf anemone)

I found a photo of a Pasque flower on the website for Altamont Prairie, a site managed by the Nature Conservancy. I've been there before, so I thought I'd take a drive out and see if I could find some.

I walked for close to an hour in a very zig zag pattern, up hills, and through swampy parts, in every different terrain that I could find and I saw nothing. On the final hill on the way back to my car, I FINALLY found one clump of four flowers. They were a little droopy from today's rain, but nonetheless, they made for some great photos!

Juvenal's Duskywing at Shut-in Mountain, Shannon Co., MO, 160618. Erynnis juvenalis. Hesperiidae: Pyrginae.

Viewing Olcott (vernal) Pool, Olcott Lake, Mt Diablo. Administered by UCD & Nature Conservancy. A jewel; off the beaten path. Ten miles away natives do not know of it's existence.

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Sundrop Prairie, Midlothian, IL

William B. Clark Conservation Area, a boardwalk through the cypress swamps of the Wolf River bottoms near Rossville, Tennessee.

The Canyon and American Rubyspots seemed to alternate in predominance at the sites we visited.

Southwest Dragonfly Blitz 2015. NM, Grant Co., Mimbres River near Mimbres; 30 August 2015. FFS-15-113