Apropos of nothing, other than a persistent foreboding of impending dystopia whenever I read about the latest Trumpwellian outrage, here’s something you learn when you read the exclusions to rental car insurance covetage: a very clinical way to describe a “nuclear incident”.

If you want to see a mountain bluebird in the Alberta foothills, check out quiet roads west of CowboyTrail/Hwy 22, near the TCH. Beginning early April.
They also overwinter around Santa Fe, but that’s flyover country for me now.

We get such a thrill from rare bobcat sightings in our inner city neighbourhood, so it’s hard to begrudge this mountain cottontail taking a break from wild foraging to fatten up on our romaine.

Yellow Lady’s Slipper (cypripedium parviflorum) growing wild in an inner city greenspace, Calgary.