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Monday, April 25, 2011 - Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

Microclimate, White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011
Microclimate, White Canyon, Fry Canyon UT, April 22, 2011

Cactus in a hole

Clever cactus. Found a nice warm microclimate in a hole. Got a couple weeks head start on spring. Things might get a little tough later in the summer. Tradeoffs - it's all about tradeoffs.

Rain

It rained hard overnight. There is water in the crick. A couple feet of it. There won't be any exploratory hikes for a day or two. Ah well, I'm outa here - gotta go pick up my mail in Blanding.

Night camp

Site 7 - Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

Alex Can Spell

Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.

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