All,
I had a head cold all last week and come Friday Jessica was really sick. So I spent Saturday and this morning on my own out in the big woods. On Saturday I finally was able to get to my game camera that I had watching rattlesnakes. There was nothing on it of any value and I have not seen the snakes in three weeks. So that was a bust. I had forgotten to take the allen wrench with me that had the camera locked with so I had to wrestle it off the tree. I spent an hour there looking for the snakes and the next two locations I went to turned up nothing. I did visit the Gentian along 532 and it is blooming.
This morning I was out of the house at 5:45AM and went to a location to check on something that we might be able to discuss in the future. I will talk to a few individuals and maybe I will write something up on it. I then spent the rest of the morning traveling all over Wharton looking for plants. My first stop was along 206 and came up empty. At my next location I found about 20 Lady's tresses (spiranthes cernua).
Had this on me. I believe it is a Tussock Moth Caterpillar.
I then went to Locks Bridge to look for a rattlesnake root plant that Bob and I found back in 2009 right after a fire. I visited the location again in 2012 and the plant was still growing well, but since then I have not found it. The area has grown up quite a bit so today I took a 2012 photo of the location with me and used it as a Then & Now to help me find the plant. Well, the plant is no longer there but I was able to take this.
The printout from 2012
And today.
Then I traveled to a gun club where 10 years ago someone that I can't remember from this site told me Gentian grows. I have found it there most years and this year was no exception. I know someone who is a member of the club and he told me I can go there and use his name if caught. He said they like it when someone they know visits the place and checks on it.
Guy
I had a head cold all last week and come Friday Jessica was really sick. So I spent Saturday and this morning on my own out in the big woods. On Saturday I finally was able to get to my game camera that I had watching rattlesnakes. There was nothing on it of any value and I have not seen the snakes in three weeks. So that was a bust. I had forgotten to take the allen wrench with me that had the camera locked with so I had to wrestle it off the tree. I spent an hour there looking for the snakes and the next two locations I went to turned up nothing. I did visit the Gentian along 532 and it is blooming.
This morning I was out of the house at 5:45AM and went to a location to check on something that we might be able to discuss in the future. I will talk to a few individuals and maybe I will write something up on it. I then spent the rest of the morning traveling all over Wharton looking for plants. My first stop was along 206 and came up empty. At my next location I found about 20 Lady's tresses (spiranthes cernua).
Had this on me. I believe it is a Tussock Moth Caterpillar.
I then went to Locks Bridge to look for a rattlesnake root plant that Bob and I found back in 2009 right after a fire. I visited the location again in 2012 and the plant was still growing well, but since then I have not found it. The area has grown up quite a bit so today I took a 2012 photo of the location with me and used it as a Then & Now to help me find the plant. Well, the plant is no longer there but I was able to take this.
The printout from 2012
And today.
Then I traveled to a gun club where 10 years ago someone that I can't remember from this site told me Gentian grows. I have found it there most years and this year was no exception. I know someone who is a member of the club and he told me I can go there and use his name if caught. He said they like it when someone they know visits the place and checks on it.
Guy
