I saw this rather amazing pic in the dead tree Denver Post this morning. A black bear wandered on to the University of Colorado campus in Boulder and wildlife officials had to tranquilize him to remove him safely. As you can see they put out a nice soft mat for him when he passed out …
Author: Reid Farmer
Spring Blooms
The wildflowers and other wild blooms really started kicking off this week. Spring comes a little slower here at 6300 feet. The wild choke cherries are blooming in the arroyo east of the house. This sand lily (white) and narrow-leafed penstemon (blue) are blooming in a warm spot south of the house. As well as …
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The Denver Post had this article on a historic wooden mining flume clinging to a cliff in western Colorado. There are current research efforts to learn more how it was built in the 1880s and to reconstruct portions of the flume that have deteriorated. I have seen it several times myself and it really is …
What Would Your Dog Do With This?
These doggie fountains are apparently available for about $30. That intelligent-looking blue merle Aussie obviously would know how to use one. Connie is convinced our pups would play with it to make a huge mess.
Martian Tornado
Picture taken from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. That’s right up there with those videos of flying tractor trailers taking during the Dallas tornado a few days ago.
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Discoveries of mammoth carcasses preserved in permafrost in Siberia are a fairly regular occurrance any more, especially with all the people looking for mammoth ivory these days. Back in February, Connie and I stopped in a gem and mineral shop in Santa Fe and saw a large Siberian mammoth tusk for sale for $27,000. However, …
Spring Snow
Storm came in very early this morning and left us with about four inches. It’s hard to believe that it was 82 degrees and 5 percent humidity only day before yesterday. Welcome to spring in the Rockies. And of course the peach trees bloomed over the weekend. Doesn’t bode well for our crop this year. …
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A looter has been convicted for stealing Civil War artifacts from the Petersburg battlefield in Virginia. The picture shows cans of minie balls he collected. Reanalysis of a Pleistocene ground sloth bone from a museum in Ohio determined that it showed butcher marks. I believe this is the first evidence for ground sloth butchering in …
Findings
Harper’s Magazine isn’t on my regular reading list, but I ran across this and enjoyed it. Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Entomologists re-created the chirping of the Jurassic bush cricket, and Russian soil cryologists cultivated a 31,800-year-old plant from a fossilized squirrel burrow in Siberia. It was determined that ancient Egyptians fed snails to dead ibises, …
Swimming Eagle of Baton Rouge
Everyone needs to see this YouTube video.