Flowers, Sticks, Ticks, and Skin Tags

Matt and I climbed Dog Mountain *again* (it's good training for climbing Machu Picchu). The highlights were flowers, sticks, ticks, and skin tags.

There were several new wild flowers in bloom this week. Here are a few:





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Sticks! (Check out Leia's evil glare.)



Ticks and Skin Tags:

Tonight we were pulling ticks off of the dogs. Both dogs are usually quite content to be flipped over and inspected. I think they enjoy all of the attention. Rudy has a thick dark coat and it's difficult to see beyond black fur. Tonight I thought I found a tick between his toes and didn't realize it was a colored skin tag until Matt gave it a solid yank with tweezers. Poor Rudy. He wasn't enjoying all of the attention quite so much after that.