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Posting so that I can say I did
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 01 at 2:29:09 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4McIt’s 1:23 in the A of M. I’ve worked until just now on a website redesign project for a (really wonderful) enviro group, and in about five hours I’m getting up to go for a hike. But the blog, she is cajoling me. And I miss it. The last couple of
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Dragon Trees and Spanish Needles
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 27 at 11:12:56 pm | 10 commentsOne of the steadiest jokes in the plant world — for rather nerdly definitions of the word “joke” — is the degree to which a person must constantly relearn the proper Latin names of plants. Just as soon as you get used to calling something a
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Yucca jaegeriana
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 12 at 9:56:05 pm | 0 commentsA kind reader sent me the article I asked for in this post, and I’ve filed it away in the database. Most of the writing I do as regards the paper will be for the book, but it’s relatively big news and I just have to engage in the sobersided,
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Gray
By Chris Clarke on 2008 11 25 at 1:07:47 am | 3 commentsThe first storm of winter will come a day from now, or two. At noon today the clouds arrived, a cirrus haze thin as a knife’s edge. Over Nevada the sky was still pale turquoise, but gray lowered in the west.
By two the sky was wrapped in
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