blackoaknaturalist: Tempis Fugit

A Quarantine Update

This has not been a busy year on my blog, having sometimes gone a month or more without posting anything new. Currently teaching three college classes online from home, and not finding much time to write and post images for the blog. One more week in the semester and Spring has sprung, so that should change. I have a backlog of several dozen photos taken in the last few weeks, so I will soon be posting them along with stories of the experiences I'm having along the way. My overall theme is generally concentrated on flowering plants and their symbiotic relationships with their pollinators. When the mood strikes, I insert philosophical and political comments. Please feel free to share your comments, but please be nice. I try to be.

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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Tempis Fugit

These photos were taken sometime during the 2005-2006 school year when my son Ryan was in 6th grade. The above photo appeared in this blog May 29, 2010, and I don't remember the occasion. It happened to be my younger sister's birthday, but I doubt there's any connection to that. My son and I love snakes, The reason I'm currently thinking in terms of "time flies" is that next week Ryan graduates from Feather River College with an A. A. degree in Environmental studies. There aren't as many snakes around here as we saw in the coastal range around Leggett. But one species we've seen in both places is the Ring-necked Snake (below photo). In these very dry times, I don't expect to see many snakes this summer.