Azere, H. 1991 March 27 (continued) I could not pick up signals (all Telovics receive?) for ?? # 3, 6, or 7 - don't know why. Next Barney Torberlin and I drove to Kreuz Ranch and turned rocks along Rucker Canyon Rd., 1-2 mi W of Hwy 80 - I caught 2 sceloporus undulatus under rocks but obviously warmed up and active. Picked up a few snakes Barney preserved for me last Fall. On the way back from Kreuz Ranch at 14:15 hr we found a large adult Grotalus scutulatus crossing State Fire Rd. - when we approached it flattened the entire body, drew the head back into a tight S-will such that the tail was toward us and the body stretched away almost straight w/ the head turned back and slightly elevated to face us. Barney kept the snake. What a mercurial landscape these southwestern deserts! A few nights ago I was driving through the eastern Mojave Desert after recent days of rain. The smell of wet creosote bush seeped into my truck - rich, sharp, clean, invigorating, almost intoxicating - evoking unexpected images of green leaves and yellow flowers while ahead only a steady stream of oncoming car lights stretched on into the eastern edge of night. The next day, hurtling down the dips and curves of Hwy 95, south from Needles, I realized that all those purple brown mountain ranges seem to float out of the surrounding basins - they float!