Flutterby™! :

Yikes! I can't help myself. Really, I should do the last few things for Burning Man prep while I try to get in touch with Todd so we can get the big stuff loaded from my house. But I do want to note that on the Scotch Night Sunday morning hike out near Stinson Beach (up Dipsea to the Steep Ravine, through Pantoll and back down the Matt Davis Trail) I saw (and heard) rattlesnakes in the wild for the first time. Several of them, big buggers all. And for the rest of the hike my ankles felt very, very vulnerable.