OK, I was wrong, highest point in Chic-Chocs is 1268 m. So maybe "Chic-Choc Junior Mountains".

It's 4:15 p.m. and we're working by headlamps... here at the very eastern edge of a time zone, winter approaching, dark comes EARLY!

The area where we're working. Chic Choc Mountains (OK, <1000 m, let's say Chic Choc Really Big Hills), Gaspesie, Quebec. Not a bad view from the "office".

Yup, pretty snowy at the northern/high elevation sites. There's a buried datalogger in there somewhere...

Near, at our northernmost sites, but a bit eastwards towards Murdochville. Watersheds scattered over a good area!

Oh gosh. Preprints. Predatory journals. LLMs. Online supplements. So much!

And yet the core storytelling focus of the book is evergreen. It's a great book.

Gonna talk to the publisher about catnip-infused cover ink for marketing purposes🤣

Josh's book has been around a while, and I wish he'd do a new edition - last I talked to him, he wasn't interested. But especially on storytelling, much of the content is evergreen!

He's just trying to lick his way through it to get to Schimel underneath! Some folks (and cats) like it better, and that's ok, it's pretty good too 🙂

That is much better!

None of them look that weird to me? I guess I can see your bumblebee critique if I look really closely - doesn't bother me as an entomologist one bit!

By the way, you can't copyright titles. So Kolbert's book shares its title with this 1968 book by Howard Ensign Evans https://amzn.to/47H5GGW. Also well worth reading - but the cover. Oh, the cover. Maybe in 1968 this was chef's kiss? I don't want to think so...

Playlist! My book in one ear, your remixes in the other?

Obligatory link to the book's webpage, for those who aren't yet super tired of me posting it:

I think the few good cardinal flower shots I've seen are done that way. None of them taken by me though!!