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  Elk with velvet green antlers at 7000 ', shooting star flower by the creek (with its petals/sepals bent back, the neat red zigzag at its mouth, stamens poking out and down, waiting for the buzzing of a bee to release the pollen) , pasque flowers, larkspur, views from 8200 ' of the snowclad mountains along the continental divide ( Evans, Squaretop, Greys, the Arapahoes, Navajo, Apache, Toll, Audubon, Sawtooth, St. Vrain, Meadow, Elk's Tooth, Copeland, Meeker, Long's, Chiquita, Ypsilon, Fairchild, Hagues, Mummy). Also, the Pourdre running high with crème and froth amongst the haystacks.  

Write letters to the editor. Call & email your Representative and Senators. Here it shows how TPP will prevent regulations on food safety, Wall Street, water pollution, and global warming. Here it shows how parts of the TPP and Fast Track allow foreign corporations to overturn laws that limit water pollution caused by metal mining and fracking. The WTO lets Mexican tuna companies sue to stop the law about dolphin safe tuna labels and also to stop the law requiring country of origin labels on meat. The TPP postpones cheaper generic drugs and prevents governments from regulating the prices of drugs.

Wallflowers, penstemons, bluebells, rose bushes, cinquefoil, a coyote striding thru a prairie dog campus, a spotted towhee that was so tame, it didn't fly away from the bush by the edge of the path as we walked below it and then above it.

Last Sunday fields of pasque flowers, a few larkspurs, and lots of sand lilies at 8000 feet in mixed ponderosa/ doug fir forest. A downy woodpecker and lots of frog calls. from little pocket ponds in the rock.

I just saw 7 ducklings. They shake their heads. Their mom tilts her head, quacks , and herds them from behind.

A customer from Bainbridge Island, Washington, told me that 4 baby orcas were recently born near there. This good news as the population of orcas thee had not been doing so well.