Bestiary

A quick post I should have fin­ished a while ago… while hik­ing through our won­der­ful mini-desert, almost in our back­yard, with Mr. Lushkin strapped firmly to the chest, we had the occa­sion to see some of the cooler, wilder wildlife of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. I won’t go into much detail, but the crown­ing moment was of course the beau­ti­ful adult South­ern Pacific Rat­tlesnake we saw on the 8th of August. Here’s a teaser:

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