Wish you could be outside? Using dehydrated sage limbs to walking-stick yourself up and down steep gradients with cream colored gypsum tumbling out of natural dunes? In case you have a day job and are not a gazillionaire, I bring you a small assortment of plants in bloom who spiced up my recent few weeks in the Mojave Desert. Helpfully, a fellow biologist shared his desert wisdom with me, who brings it to you. In fact, he shared so much wonderful insight over our work breaks

There are some cases where seeing a tragedy of errors is just the correct way to transmit comedy directly into the bloodstream of suspecting readers. My recent rockventure (back) to Yakima Canyon was one of these. Friday, early After waking up at 0350 on the tail of a mad March week, Fry & I discover the incipient Midwestern blizzard is delaying flights. After stretching two of my three glutes and deeply breathing, very passably sanely, while face-planting in this MSP termin