“Timeliness is not a concern, we are an association of Turtles.”
Month: May 2015
caterpillar and oak
the Cloud
![vaping](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150515-Tracey-cloud.jpg)
horse race
![election signs](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150514-democratic-primary-contenders.jpg)
meeting voters in preparation for June 9 Democratic Primary.
When the new Council is seated in November, I hope that they look back and ask themselves why the 1975 Street Tree plan was never implemented.
Revise and adopt that plan in the first one-hundred days!
B.B. King
Palustris
![wetland](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150502-hardwood-wetland-bw.jpg)
Meet at the Franklin Street wetland gate ( north of the stockyard) at 10:00 AM. (near 706 Franklin ST).
This is the hardwood wetland that was built to mitigate loss of wetlands with
the expansion of Ragged Mountain reservoir.
Rubber boots are advised.
Please RSVP to aterry(at)rwsa.org.
Palustris is a Latin word meaning “swampy” or “marshy”. It is often used in taxonomy for species names
typically in scientific names for animals and plants to refer to the typical habitat of the species.–Wikipedia
Coragyps atratus
mother
Quiscalus quiscula
![grackle](http://billemory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150425-grackle-bird.jpg)
Opportunistic omnivors. Like us.
what is in a name?