Dear fellow CLMer’s –<\/p>\n
I know I should hate ATV’s. And I do, I promise, scout’s honor! But…at the same time…I love riding on them. I can’t help it! I just do!<\/p>\n
The other day the Ecologist and I headed out to North Delta for Land Health Assessment’s and we went to this small piece of BLM land snuggled between private with no public access and I had the..<\/p>\n
BEST. DAY. EVER.<\/p>\n
Or one of them anyway…I find myself saying that about most of my work days here, which is the best feeling in the world…and also the worst as my time here is slowly winding down.<\/p>\n
ANYWAY! The manager of the ranch that we had to cross to get to the BLM land gave us a ride to the remote location on, you guessed it, his sweet ATV! Me and his amazing boarder collie Cheyenne became best friends, too. So between the ATV ride, Cheyenne, and the most beautiful fall day ever, I’d have to say it was a pretty perfect day.<\/p>\n
And now, in celebration of fall, and also creativity which I feel is essential to all scientist, I will leave you all with a poem by the great E. E. Cummings.<\/p>\n
a wind has blown the rain away<\/strong> a wind has blown the rain away and blown (and what have you to say, the last leaf whirling in the final brain away and the leaves and the sky and the FALL! Snow’s in the mountains and while I don’t want this internship to end yet I can’t wait for ski season to start! Hope everyone is loving the change of weather as much as I am!<\/p>\n Brandee Wills Dear fellow CLMer’s – I know I should hate ATV’s. And I do, I promise, scout’s honor! But…at the same time…I love riding on them. I can’t help it! I just do! The other day the Ecologist and I headed … Continue reading
\nby E.E. Cummings<\/p>\n
\nthe sky away and all the leaves away,
\nand the trees stand. I think i too have known
\nautumn too long<\/p>\n
\nwind wind wind\u2014did you love somebody
\nand have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
\npinched from dumb summer?
\nO crazy daddy
\nof death dance cruelly for us and start<\/p>\n
\nof air!)Let us as we have seen see
\ndoom\u2019s integration\u2026\u2026\u2026a wind has blown the rain<\/p>\n
\ntrees stand:
\nthe trees stand. The trees,
\nsuddenly wait against the moon\u2019s face.<\/p>\n
\nMontrose, CO
\nUncompahgre Field Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"