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We found this “sleeping” or sick in center of dirt forest road in sun. We thought it was dead at first, but when I tried to turn it over with a stick, it was alive. Was it hibernating? Was it sick? A disease that eats the brain out? Just guesses. We set salal branches all around it so we wouldn’t accidentally step on it on our return walk, but when we hiked back the mouse was gone! Had it only been “playing dead” while we were there and actually is healthy? We don’t know!

Vaccinium #1 (left/upper side of sketchbook page):
I negligently did not assign photos to the blueberries I sketched, and there are 3 blueberries sketched on this one page ... however, I think the following photos probably (almost certainly) belong to the sketch of the #1 blueberry, upper/lefthand side of drawing page

ID of "Eucephalus ledophyllus prob. var. ledophyllus" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium; in last two photos, var. ledophyllus is on left, var. covillei is on right;

sketchbook purple-aster #3 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon

ID of "Eucephalus ledophyllus prob. var. covillei" by Aaron Liston of OSU Herbarium ; in last two photos, var. ledophyllus is on left and var. covillei is on right;

sketchbook purple-aster #4 of 5 from this backpacking trip in 3 Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon

small-flowered penstemon sketched at shore of South Matthieu Lake (but photos of small-flowered penstemon were taken upslope at the entrance to lake: prob same species, but should note are not exact specimens are sketched one)