Forest Collection - 2017
...for all the beauty that surrounds us, including the rivers, creeks,
ponds, lakes, waterfalls, mountains, valleys, ridges, canyons, meadows, mist,
rain, wind, smoke-free air, clouds, snow, raptors, ospreys, merlins, bald eagles, songbirds, hummingbirds, woodpeckers,
ravens, nuthatches, steller's jays, kinglets, orioles, dippers, owls, shorebirds,
buffleheads, hooded mergansers, common mergansers, wood ducks, kingfishers, sandhill cranes, waterfowl, bugs, dragonflies, butterflies, lady-beetles, spiders, fish,
frogs, snakes, lizards, newts, salamanders, tadpoles, fairy shrimp, deer, marmots, opossums, bobcats, ringtail cats, skunks, squirrels, bears, minks, otters, mountain lions, mice, shrews, gophers,
muskrats, foxes, oaks, firs, cedars, hemlocks, pines, madrones, dogwoods, aspens,
cottonwoods, locusts, willows, manzanitas, ceanothus, silk tassels, dwarf bilberry, wildflowers, pitcher plants, mushrooms, lichen, moss, ferns, mistletoes, mountain ash,
cattails, elderberries, choke cherries, and...
...don't forget the fragrance of damp earth, crushed wild ginger leaves, little princess pine blossoms, wild roses, spreading phlox, washington lilies, warm jeffrey pine bark, and the baked-pine-needle-summer-warmed forest floor...
...as well as the sound of aspen leaves in the wind, the rubbery calls of sandhill cranes, the river cascading down the canyon, the delightfully fun calls of the yellow-breasted chat, and the rain falling in the forest!
For all this and much, much more I am so grateful!
Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
I'm going on a road trip, so check back in two weekends (Dec. 5-6)
for the latest Natural History News from my neighborhood!
Your questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
Please email me at northyubanaturalist@gmail.com
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