Camp Cougar doesn't have that many thistles. Glen spends a good deal of time each spring digging up or spraying -->

This summer I've seen two moms. One has two fawns and another has one fawn. I don't see them everyday. When I don't -->

The chipmunk has been hanging out for several days, so I think he or she has moved in. I hope there are -->

Two never-seen-before-on-our-property critters appeared this week. A few days ago, Glen was walking near the totem pole entrance, and...

My prevous post A Yellow Invasion described a plant that started growing in huge numbers in our back field, and whose name →

I walked into the bathroom in the cabin and was greeted by a scorpion. I place a glass over it and then fetched →

For the past year or so, we noticed the wood on one of the tree house porch beams was →

I went away for a few weeks and when I returned I found a →

We had lots of visitors to the pond in the few weeks we were away. Squirrels, stellar jays, quail, doves, and →

There is a nest in the eaves at each end of the cabin. Most years the nests are empty, but this year one of the nests became home to →

It's early May and there must be hundreds of thousands of wildflowers. But they are →

We happened to look out the window when a troupe of six wild turkeys walked by. One of them was a very light brown. →

Skunks enjoy eating wasps and wasp larvae. If you can find a →

It has been almost 2 months since Skyline Blvd. opened after the washout disasters in February 2017. During that year, I had to →

e just hiked up to the two breaches in our road and took some photos. The first one is the “minor” road problem that is one →

The good news is that the wind started blowing late last night. It inverted the →

The Chasm is, of course, our big focus because without the road, we can't easily get to Saratoga. The Slip Out is between our house and →

More and more, that Highway 35 chasm is starting to fill in. On our latest trek to check the progress, we noticed a dirt ramp. It →

We don't typically get foggy days in the summer. →

Birds sometimes build nests in the most interesting places. Like underneath our →