Showing posts with label Paradise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paradise. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2022

Liverworts

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Day 362: Scientists are driven to name things (via those pesky taxonomists, of course): to categorize, to distinguish, the better to underst...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Patchwork

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Day 360: The high country is clad in motley, performing its final botanical dance of the season with wild abandon. This, not the masses of w...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Goat Rocks Fire

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Day 359: Per this morning's update, the Goat Rocks Fire now stands at 4552 acres, small as wildfires go, but filling the air in the surr...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Seriously?

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Day 8: I don't think any of us were quite ready for the sudden transition from summer to winter, but after all, we should have expect...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Sooty Grouse, Dendragapus Obscurus

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Day 300: As with many bird species which exhibit morphologic variations from one side of the country to the other, Dendragapus obscurus i...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

It's Our Birthday!

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Day 140: Mount Rainier National Park was established on March 2, 1899, and today marks MORA's 118th "birthday." It might su...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Fall Colour

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Day 357: The "drizmal" season has arrived, and already I'm longing for the backcountry, oppressed by rain and grey skies. I...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Prumnacris Rainierensis, Cascade Timberline Grasshopper

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Day 356: Years ago when I used to hike extensively off-trail, one route I consistently took to get from Here to There was so heavily popu...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Elmera Racemosa, Yellow Coralbells

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Day 316: Yellow Coralbells (Elmera racemosa) is a small plant with leaves you might mistake for those of a Heuchera. It was first conside...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Legendary Blue

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Day 315: A modern story (~cough!) tells us that Gentians take their colour from the sky. How? Well, let me explain. The deep cups of Mo...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Valeriana Sitchensis, Sitka Valerian

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Day 314: Sitka Valerian (Valeriana sitchensis) is common sight in subalpine meadows. It also bears the distinction of having been descri...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Eremogone Capillaris, Threadleaf Sandwort

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Day 312: Following up on yesterday's post regarding the pronunciation of scientific names, I bring you Err-uh-MOGG-oh-nee?...Err-uh...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Pink Elephants

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Day 310: I thought I was going to have to buy a gallon of cheap wine in order to see pink elephants this year, but thanks to my botany p...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

MeadoWatch

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Day 308 (bonus edition): So what is this "MeadoWatch" thing I was talking about in my earlier post? Well, it's a program de...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Lousewort Anatomy

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Day 305: The Louseworts are in their best bloom at various times over the summer, but it's rare to find examples of every species dur...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Marmota Caligata, Hoary Marmot

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Day 302: The Hoary Marmot is one of more than a dozen species of Marmot which occur worldwide. Six species are known to occur in the US, ...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Luetkea Pectinata, Partridgefoot

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Day 298: It's just one of those "little white flowers" you see all over the subalpine meadows in the Park, but Partridgefoo...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Roving Out Of Paradise

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Click to enlarge Day 288: I don't do a lot of meadow-roving, and by that I mean working per the position description of "Meado...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Buprestis Aurulenta, Golden Buprestid

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Day 317: First an update on the Alder Lake Fire...Christian, the young firefighter who has been my point of contact for the last several...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Grass-of-Parnassus, Parnassia Fimbriata

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Day 308: Strikingly beautiful and lace-like when observed closely, Grass-of-Parnassus is not a grass at all, but a member of the Saxifrag...