Thursday, May 31, 2018

hot hot end of May

After a hot day out collecting resin, a nice meal at a friend's home, where he points me to a fragant flower in the corner of the patio. The same orchid, Prosthechea radiata, is now blooming out in the field.


Thursday, May 24, 2018

biodiversity bits

May is hot and dry in California @ La Sepultura.
Still, one encounters all kinds of life sunbathing or enjoying the coolness of streams.


Spiny lizard (Sceloporus smaragdinus)


time is ticking for this motmot and me