There’s always something happening outdoors on the Pajarito Plateau!
How did I come to illustrating and journaling? When my daughter’s son was about 5, she had written a story for him. She asked me one day if I would illustrate it. “I can’t do that. I don’t have the skill!” was my reply. She had responded “Yes you can!” With great misgivings I did it! She was the one that pushed me to do what I believed was unthinkable. We all need someone like that!
Enter technology in the form of a free app…Merlin ID. The purpose is to help answer the question “What’s that bird?” through visual sightings(2014, photos you take (2017), and now audio sounds (2021). Designed by the folks at the Cornell Institute of Ornithology, along with some help from Caltech, its accuracy continues to improve through observational data input from over 5000 users using artificial intelligence to refine the entries.
Whiptails are slender lizards with pointed snouts and long tails. These lizards primarily eat insects but will eat other small …
© Steven J. Cary, April 2023 Happy April all you New Mexico butterflyers. I hope it has been worth the …
Chorus frogs are small, less than two inches in length. They are light tan, gray, brown, or even greenish with …
My February blog was on the Mythology of Trees. Selvi Viswanathan contacted me and said, “In India they worship trees.” This intrigued me because I had made the statement “worship of trees was worldwide.” I was only familiar with the Celtic tribes because I had traveled to Ireland…
American robins, often considered a harbinger of spring, are ubiquitous in the area, particularly during summer when they can be …
Read about Steve’s latest adventures viewing Monarchs in California.
Woodrats, also known as packrats, look like typical rats except that they have hairy tails versus scaly, hairless ones. While …
