Showing posts with label Arnie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arnie. Show all posts
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Arctium Sp.

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Day 334: "How'd we miss that on the way up?" I asked. Arnie replied, "Burr, Cocklebur...that's the common name I know...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Memories and Mushrooms

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Day 333: I seldom think to take pictures of human subjects, and now I'm kicking myself because Merry got to meet a new uncle yesterday, ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

All-der Smilie

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Day 332: Forgive the brevity! This smilie group of alder cones represents how I feel after a long day with a good friend who I haven't s...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Coprinus Petersonii, Peterson's Inky-cap

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Day 98: My good friend and mentor Arnie Peterson presented me with the challenge of finding a new species of Coprinus, and although I wasn...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

A Landmark Weed

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Day 326: They say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and so it was that I pulled Hitchcock off the shelf after an hour of bro...
Friday, June 11, 2021

It Started With Sanicula

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Day 241: Earlier this year while hiking in Rimrock County Park, I found some odd foliage I couldn't identify. I referred it to my two ta...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Smith And Hooker

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Day 228: Last summer, weeks after the blossoms had passed, Arnie and I were discussing the flora found on the Park's Tahoma Woods proper...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Calypso Orchid, Calypso Bulbosa

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Day 214: I can always count on Arnie to provide me with reading material on the subject of plants. He's very good at finding snippets of...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Number 100

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Day 156: It doesn't look like much...a few leaves, no pretty flower...but it is a milestone in my career as a plant photographer. Sanicu...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Recommended By Experts

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Day 52: Day before yesterday, I received an early Christmas present in the mail with no clue as to the sender save for the return address of...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Queen Of Plants Without Chlorophyll

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Day 284: About a week ago, I received an email from Arnie with the salutation, "Oh, queen of plants without chlorophyll," which ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Find Prosartes

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Day 254: Now several weeks past its blooming period, the Fairybells are just one more green thing in the green, green sea of our forests....
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Pathfinder, Adenocaulon Bicolor

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Day 225: Pathfinder is a plant familiar to hikers in the Pacific Northwest even if they don't know what it's called or why it earn...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Deliberate Obfuscation

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Day 69: Obfuscate: to cloud or obscure; to cause confusion; to make difficult of comprehension or interpretation; to make unnecessarily c...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Mushroom Memories

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Day 283: By and large, mushroom hunters are secretive people who defend their favourite locations with a wall of silence. Many of us pref...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Finding Rosy

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Day 232: When Team Biota first started working with the Park's former Plant Ecologist, he tasked us with finding both rarities and pl...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Special Gifts, Special Friends

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Day 63: I think Santa must have decided I've been nice this year because I can't believe he dispatched two pair of special elves ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

The Arnie Blanket

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Day 44: It's close enough to the unavoidable moment for me to post this: Park Plant Ecologist and good friend Arnie is retiring, a f...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Musk Monkeyflower, Erythranthe Moschata

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Day 253: The source of much taxonomic frustration earlier in the week, Musk Monkeyflower is one of those spots where Arnie (the Park'...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

And Kidneys To Top It Off

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Day 152: I'm not sure where to start relating today's events, so I think I'll begin with the photo. Ever since finding Fring...