I started field herping in the early 1970s.  I’ve been blogging about herps since 1996.  Of course, blogging hadn’t been invented yet, but nobody told us, the handful of proto-bloggers who felt the compulsion to write about our adventures with amphibians and reptiles. I used to write lengthy missives about some of the trips I made, but it was very time consuming, and these days I don’t have the time for that.  It also led to a lot of sloppy writing without much thought behind it.  Very embarrassing. My goal with this blog is keep the focus on a single theme – a specific herp, a singular moment, a topic I want to explore.  Everything bouncing around in my brain…