Cute Creature of the Day

I think I've caught Ben's cold, but that didn't prevent us from taking a short walk in McDonald Forest. I found a Pacific Sideband snail who was pretty neat (they fire love darts at each other when courting!), but the award for cutest creature goes to the Pacific chorus frog that Ben found nestled on a fern:

The flower I found last week that looked like purple asparagus has blossomed. Turns out it's spotted coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata), an orchid that parasitizes fungi! It's kind of hard to see in this photo, but each tiny flower is a perfect little orchid.