I figured I might as well finish out this week’s set of posts with another unexpected critter from Joshua Tree, and in keeping with the previous posts, this one is a hummingbird moth – a White-lined Sphinx Moth to be precise.
Category: Plants & Flowers
When I headed to Joshua Tree National Park, I tried to time it to be there during a time when the various desert flowers would be in bloom. I am still not sure if I timed it right – some things were in bloom, some…
It is not easy to photograph really tall trees… I decided to try some vertical panoramic shots to see if that would work…
I have always felt a draw to dead trees for some explainable reason and when I was in Colorado, there were plenty of really photogenic ones to choose from…
Craters of the Moon National Monument is a smallish spot in Idaho (and not really all that close to anything) that is a “vast ocean of lava flows, islands of cinder cones, and sagebrush” – and when I was there, biting cold winds and snow!…
I’m not going to waste a ton of time typing words for the Colorado National Monument photos. I’m not even going to look up the names of some of these various rock formations. I’m just going to share these photos and know that they don’t…
My last few days in Colorado, which season I was in seemed to depend on the elevation… Just a slight difference of only a couple hundred feet made the difference between beautiful autumn among the aspens or the first snowfalls on the mountains.
Just some close-ups of some of the various autumn colors during a visit to a small Japanese garden near Seattle…
Ok – not technically on the Argentine Pass or Peak, but on the way out we passed a sign we hadn’t seen on the way in labeled “Pennsylvania Mine” and also could see a massive structure that was falling apart on the other side of…