Tame Timber - after startling this rattler, it slithered off and we slowly followed at a safe distance, until it was driven from the study plot Bitter Pickerel Totally Toad Monstrous Millipede

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More bugs from my landscaping days at the Heavenly Mountain Art of Living Retreat Center. Really interesting Buddhist meditation campus Bees, beetles, and butterflies sharing flowers, scary spiders ("Mountain Tarantulas"), and the only native stick bug I have ever encountered in Appalachia

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Got to work at The Art of Living retreat center one summer landscaping between salamander surveys. Very beautiful place at the edge of relatively untouched wilderness... Some unique critters call it home, including many beautiful moths that hide under temple awnings during summer thunderstorms

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Always remember, when you see a flat field, farm, pasture, or grassland, it likely once included ponds and shade-vegetation, as well as millions of salamanders and frogs used these ponds to breed. This habitat changed from forested wetlands, to farms, to soccer fields (top-left image is edited)

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Wood Frogs in northern latitudes can freeze over winter American Toads unbothered, moisturized, focused, flourishing The Spring Peepers are the smallest frogs, but a chorus of thousands can only be compared to jet engines! Spotted Salamanders' are the largest land living caudates in the region

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