Field Fragments: A very hot week

One minute video on how to handle the heat by: finding water, immersing in beauty, focusing on something else, taking a bath, getting up early, going for a swim (even if you’re a squirrel), and relaxing on a cool rock…all in the time it takes for a Central Ratsnake* to cross our driveway. The sounds are dulled because even the birds were panting instead of singing on those hot afternoons…

*Yes, the species I grew up calling Black Ratsnake and had just trained myself to call Gray Ratsnake got split again by the geneticists this week. As of today, this beauty is a Central Ratsnake.

Favorite photo of the week: Green Heron preening, best of 70 photos taken in bird mode before my model got tired of posing.

Current seasonal highlights: catching spiderwebs gleaming in the sun and the first colored buckeye leaves, a few already on the ground.

Don’t forget to go out and play! And: