The Charmed Life
![The Charmed Life](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/foster-baker-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1651.jpg)
Working and living with a small group of people can be draining, especially when you’re putting in the long hours that we are to try to find as many stickleback as possible. Luckily, a good crew [like ours] will make the days easier by finding time to enjoy the beautiful land we’ve traveled to with a smile or a joke or something unexpected. After a long day of travelling and trapping, we had one more lake to find in the Green Point campground. As we wandered up and down a beautiful ocean side trail to no avail, Eric fortuitously took a moment to fall face first into a bed of moss and grass that faced the ocean.
“It smells delicious!” he cried. “Come on down!”
We skeptically obeyed. A soft landing and a sweet but earthy smell welcomed us. These are excerpts from the photoshoot that followed:
![Sweet Emma, Jenna, and Eric enjoy the sunset from the patch](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1586-300x200.jpg)
![A possible stickleback sighting!](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1589-300x200.jpg)
![Let's compare](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1817-300x200.jpg)
![Sculpin try to crawl to the ocean](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1595-300x200.jpg)
![And a real man's beard](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1752-300x200.jpg)
![A good laugh](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1596-300x200.jpg)
![All of a sudden, this guy was a few feet from us, sniffing at our traps. The first fox sighting of the trip and it was so close we could pet it.](https://wordpress.clarku.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/241/2013/07/DSC_1604-300x234.jpg)
I wonder how I came to deserve such a very charming scene. After a battery of photos, the fox ran back into its hole, and we strolled back to the car through the iris-laden path.