My Art.
The Belted Kingfisher of North America. Believe or not this gaily colored bird is a female putting the male to shame. An unusual arrangement among birds. A watercolor painting. We have a fox’s den...
Author: jhspiderjohn
Free Meals and Logings.
Imagin a house in which you can eat the walls to your hearts content. Insect galls are the highly distinctive plant structures formed by some herbivorous insects as their own microhabitats. They are formed from plant tissue...
To be buried alive.
I met a young First Nation Blackfoot girl and her boyfriend, and we got to talk about the Oldman River and local horror stories. So, I replied with our 4,500 tarantulas in a bedroom...
4,500 Tarantulas in a Bedroom.
I got talking to a young 1st Nations girl while camping beside the Oldman River. Somehow the subject came up to swap horror stories. I went first and hoped to top any story she...
A Tale of a High Rise Birds’ Nest.
Whilst sitting beside our Rocky Mountain Creek one late August afternoon, I noticed a bird’s nest in a Chokecherry bush that had gone unnoticed with previous visits, the lack of leaves made it visible....
The Quest.
For the Garden of Eden a search for a ‘Pristine Wilderness’ untouched by man, a landscape of beauty and tranquility. Introduction. From a very early age, I was fascinated by small life forms such...
The Rocky Mountain Biosphere. Part 1. Introduction.
Part 1. An Introduction to the Rocky Mountains. Welcome to Our little corner of the world. We like to think that we live in a biological paradise, which is dominated by the Eastern flanks...
Spiders. – Part 6. The Egg Sac.
Recall, from Part 3., the male gametes are stored within the spermathecae of the females’ abdomen. The female’s unfertilized eggs start their journey through life by being mixed with the male gametes. Then, one...
