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A Bit of Here & There

May 24, 2008 at 9:45 am | In Black Widow, Boat, Cemetary, Hagerman, Idaho History, Milner, Nature, North Cottonwood Creek, Oregon Trail, Pictures, Sagebrush, Sagebrush Steppe, Snake River, South Hills, Spiders, Spring, Waterfalls, Wildlife, backcountry | Leave a Comment

Here’s a few of the places we’ve been as of late: Boating on the Snake River by Hagerman (mid April)…

complete with beautiful waterfall.

A windy day at Milner (early April) – just part of a drive while Collin snoozed in the back.

Complete with Oregon Trail ruts (gives me chills!)…

…and little graveyard with weathered wooden tombstones (gives me chills of another sort).

A day out at North Cottonwood Creek in the South Hills (one of a few already) - end of April.

A burst of red.

Greening up.

That burst of red again with a crumbling creekbed behind it looking in poor health.

And complete with a big black widow in a hole in the ground with its metallic blue pray in the bottom left-hand corner. I’ll admit it, my hands trembled a little as I took this picture, and for some reason, I wasn’t aware that they lived right there on the surface – in the top of a hole in the ground. Made me look twice before I took each step. Black widows are quite beautiful looking, though, with their glossy almost plastic looking bodies. One time, we found one living under our couch – that gives me chills too!

More:

North Cottonwood Creek in the Fall

Everything South Hills Related

Everything Snake River Related

Everything Hagerman Related

Rock

April 15, 2008 at 3:50 pm | In Bonneville Flood, Hagerman, Hagerman National Fish Hatchery, Nature, Pictures, Riley Creek, Rocks | 3 Comments

‘Melon Gravels’ by Riley Creek at the Hagerman National Fish Hatchery

I just love these basalt rocks that litter much of the landscape near and in Hagerman. They were deposited by the Bonneville flood (so interesting!). Collin and I meandered through the rocks looking at red ant hills, lichen, moss, rockchucks, and of course the melon gravels. Chase, meanwhile, was sturgeon fishing with a friend of ours – no luck this time.