Thank you for not being perky

Despite temperatures in the 40′s and cold cold cold rain I had a good time camping this weekend. It was fun to get cozy in front of the fire and to snuggle under blankets. Mr. Pants enjoyed the hell out of it not in small part because he got to hang out with his grandma and grandpa.

We went on a hike along the south fork (or is it north? west?)of the Tuolomne River and saw a salamander (mander!), moss gone wild and lots of flowers.

Once again I was sort of unprepared and then too preoccupied to get my plant/tree/rock identifying pants on. But I have squirreled a bit of new info away.

This distinctive plant is called Mountain Misery, the flower looks like a strawberry flower and the leaves are nice and ferny. It comes by it’s name due to it’s extreme UNusefulness – as ground cover it hides tracks,  horses and cattle won’t eat it, humans don’t like it and it has a sticky resin that gets all over everything.

After like 3 days straight of rain the moss was off the hook – behold it’s royal fluffiness!

Speaking if getting your identifying on, here is a really cool free downloadable bird workbook slash coloring book. It has some common bird line drawings you can color and then questions for you to answer about each bird. oooo Mr. Pants! I can’t wait for you to be old enough to do this! Thank you cornel ornithology lab!

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