Another hot day today, this time with no chance of rain. Hard blue sky, puffy white clouds that did not turn into thunderheads...definitely a normal mid-July day.
Down to the creek woods I went, not needing boots at all, and though it was hot and humid and nearly still, it was also beautiful. Clear water in the south swamp overflow; clear water
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As you're so tuned-in to place, you might enjoy http://susanalbert.typepad.com/what_wildness_is_this/, the blog for _What Wildness Is This_, a book by women writing about the southwest. Susan Wittig Albert [blog here--http://susanalbert.typepad.com/lifescapes/] is one of the authors. She posts really cool critter & flower pictures too.
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For instance, I really like _Butterflies Through Binoculars_ (I have "the West" and am hoping to buy "the East" on this trip, since we're at the margin and get some eastern species where I live) and _Dragonflies Through Binoculars_. For birds, Sibley's books are superb, though they're not easy to carry in the field. For plants in general, I still use the Peterson series guides--wildflowers, trees and woody plants, plus other regional wildflower guides with more pictures. I like pictures. If you live in the south-central region, Abbot's book on dragonflies and damselflies is great--it has *all* the damselflies.
That's a lovely blog you mentioned. But(whine, whine, whine) nobody asked *me* to be part of that book! Or blog!
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Thanks for the cool recs; I like pictures too.
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