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21 Jul 2009 15:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shichahnWhile listening to Gomez' How We Operate the other day, I realized that Girlshapedlovedrug is so very ridiculously Church/Tex, and that that is awesome. And what? A canon pairing that is not actually complete crap? Oh, RoosterTeeth, you spoil us so.
Except for when you don't, like doing a PSA this week instead of continuing from the asldkfalghag cliffhanger. Although fire safety is very important, I know.
Anyway. Last weekend, I went to Crater Lake! It was excellent. We hiked up to the tallest point in the park (the fire lookout tower on Mt. Scott), and there were so many butterflies up there it was insane. Not floating about and sitting on flowers, but instead whipping around in great colorful currents like a kind of living, visible wind. It was so cool. And then we hiked down to the lowest point, the lake itself, and got freezing cold in the perpetually-38-degrees water. Which was awesome. And then we hiked out into the backcountry through subalpine forests and meadows of lupines and camped at Dutton Creek, which was nice but full of mosquitoes. Still, we all agreed that it was safe to say we conquered that National Park in our measly 3 days there. It was great.
And this coming weekend (well, okay, my weekends don't always line up with the rest of the world's, so by weekend I mean Sunday through Wednesday) I will be in Portland again! Assuming it doesn't rain on us a bunch here and make us lose our days off, anyway. That would be annoying. And then, of course, I'll be back for good by August 8th. Possibly the 7th. It will depend on the weather, as usual.
In awesome bird news, we caught a cedar waxwing today! Totally awesome and so unexpected. Not as cool as the hawk, but still great. A nice little break from the epic amounts of juvenile Wilson's warblers that have been flooding the nets. Today's site usually gets about 18 birds a day and yet we got 33 because all the juveniles have fledged and are roaming about in nomadic packs. It's kind of fun, but it's a lot of work.
Alright, time to go make some dinner and watch more BSG. That is one heck of an addicting show. :)
Except for when you don't, like doing a PSA this week instead of continuing from the asldkfalghag cliffhanger. Although fire safety is very important, I know.
Anyway. Last weekend, I went to Crater Lake! It was excellent. We hiked up to the tallest point in the park (the fire lookout tower on Mt. Scott), and there were so many butterflies up there it was insane. Not floating about and sitting on flowers, but instead whipping around in great colorful currents like a kind of living, visible wind. It was so cool. And then we hiked down to the lowest point, the lake itself, and got freezing cold in the perpetually-38-degrees water. Which was awesome. And then we hiked out into the backcountry through subalpine forests and meadows of lupines and camped at Dutton Creek, which was nice but full of mosquitoes. Still, we all agreed that it was safe to say we conquered that National Park in our measly 3 days there. It was great.
And this coming weekend (well, okay, my weekends don't always line up with the rest of the world's, so by weekend I mean Sunday through Wednesday) I will be in Portland again! Assuming it doesn't rain on us a bunch here and make us lose our days off, anyway. That would be annoying. And then, of course, I'll be back for good by August 8th. Possibly the 7th. It will depend on the weather, as usual.
In awesome bird news, we caught a cedar waxwing today! Totally awesome and so unexpected. Not as cool as the hawk, but still great. A nice little break from the epic amounts of juvenile Wilson's warblers that have been flooding the nets. Today's site usually gets about 18 birds a day and yet we got 33 because all the juveniles have fledged and are roaming about in nomadic packs. It's kind of fun, but it's a lot of work.
Alright, time to go make some dinner and watch more BSG. That is one heck of an addicting show. :)
