Would you fly 55,000 miles just for a pound of honey?
29. March 2010
If you didn’t know that a nematode was an unsegmented, bilaterally symmetric and triploblastic protostomes with a complete digestive system, well, what does that say about you?
25. February 2010
Have you ever had home-made blackberry jam? On toast, sandwiches, or cornbread this is one of my absolute favorites. This bounty comes with a price. Thorns, and I’m talking clothes ripping, hand pricking, blood letting thorns. And I swear these snaky tendrils reach out and grab you when you’re not looking. Think your free? Walk [...]
24. February 2010
I have, on only one occasion seen, witnessed and observed a Western Coralroot orchid Corallorhiza maculata ssp. mertensiana in it’s native habitat. There was only one. A delicate pinkish white candy-striped stem no more than 6 inches tall. Nestled in a mossy grove under a great doug fir in the Cascade foothills. It was like [...]
9. February 2010
New World natives, marigolds were the sacred flowers of the Aztecs. They attributed magical, religious, an medicinal properties to the marigolds.
12. January 2010
When I was a child of oh 7 or 8 years old. We lived in Fort Collins Colorado. My best friends name was Brian. His claim to fame was that he could throw a rock further than anyone in the entire elementary school.
29. March 2010
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