Hi, my name is Coluber constrictor . I'm the first snake of the spring. It's really warming up, so you'd better watch where you ...

All moaning and complaining makes Rurality a dull blog, so I've tried to avoid a bunch of griping about my back problems. Instead, here...

I took this picture in April 2005 but only recently figured out what it was. When looking up something else I ran across a photo of Eastern ...

I'm sorry to be absent lately. My back improves, but then gets worse. Not after big, incredibly stupid things, but following little, sur...

I don't think cats understand reading.

I took a couple of exceedingly bad photos of a small black fungus growing in the grass. It's possibly Craterellus fallax , or Black Trum...

The previous location for the game cam was getting zero pictures, so we moved it. The new location is not exactly Grand Game Central, but we...

Puffed sky Sorry for not being here. I still can't sit for long periods of time without my back letting me know (via little shooting pai...

When I was researching heiligenschein recently, I also read about Sun dogs a.k.a. parhelia or false suns. I'd heard the term but had ...

From the same garden as the pictures of last week. Four views of a fountain: A daisy bath among white iris. Another fountain. A small waterf...

I interrupt the series of garden tour photos for this picture of a chicken. In comments, Ki suggested that we try Araucana chickens. I'...

Jenn commented on the purple wall in yesterday's garden tour post . It was my favorite focal point of the garden. A bold choice of colo...

I took a break from the recent gray days and worked on some pictures from last spring. This is the same garden from the Shoals Garden Tour t...

Evidence of beavers upstream. Evidence of people upstream.