I’ve been asking people over on Facebook to donate to the Desert Protective Council as a birthday present, and today my DPC colleague mentioned she couldn’t find the link here. Because there wasn’t one! Here it is.
The last couple days have been good, with much spoiling by The Raven and hiking and scenery and and soaking in tubs and eating Japanese food and one um shall we say rather jarring discovery out in the desert.
My favorite part was the surprise The Raven had for me out in the wilderness: she’d arranged for three dozen Mojave green rattlesnakes to spell out “Happy Birthday Chris” on a bare stretch of desert we were planning to hike through, and the plan was that when we got to this certain spot they’d all start rattling festively, seeing as they each came with their own included party noisemaker. Sadly, snakes can’t spell very well, but I tried to have a hapy birtdday anyway.
The jarring discovery was documented here, and don’t click that on a full stomach, and let me just say that I have a post on coyote hunting coming up in relatively short order.
Even so, it was good to get to Wee Thump again.
That “discovery” of yours was just plain wrong, Chris. I would have been feeling violent and mad-as-hell upon that finding.
I hope you’re well in this new year!
Aside from that, Michael, yes: very well indeed. And you, I hope.
Very nice photo. I won’t be looking at the other one.
You didn’t happen to snap a photo of the snakes did you?
Happy 50th!
I remember mine well (I am a double nickel now), hubby and I spent the day climbing up the Lost Mine Trail in Big Bend National Park! Wonderful, except we didn’t bring food.
I came across pretty much the same sight on my way through the John Day Fossil Beds region of Oregon in 2006. Just wonderful.