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Subtle in the Sun
Today, I’m featuring another recently converted digital file (from a 35mm slide). This subtly-colored female Eastern Collared Lizard was captured as it sunned on a lichen-covered rock in the Oklahoma Wichita Mountains: Not long ago, I featured the male Eastern Collared Lizard (Male Eastern Collared Lizard), in case you missed it or want to compare […]
Bad Moon Rising
Today, I’m featuring another recently converted digital file (from a 35mm slide). This beautiful moon was captured rising from behind the mountains of the Bosque del Apache of New Mexico: While packing my equipment after a full day of photographing wintering sandhill cranes at the Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, I looked around […]
Merry Christmas 2023!
Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas … and may you have a Peace-filled 2024! (From a winter visit to Yellowstone NP, a few years ago)
Beautiful ‘Greenies’
Today’s post features an image I captured on one of the Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) pools, in northwest Missouri, a few years ago. Mallard drakes (males) are brilliantly colored when you can find them in good light. These Mallard drakes were cruising one of the refuge pools in beautiful, early morning […]
King of the Sunflowers?
Today’s post features some images of Maximillian Sunflowers, captured this past week in the church butterfly garden, here at the Lake of the Ozarks (MO). The Maximillian Sunflower is a new addition to the church butterfly garden. Several bare root plants were planted last fall and in one short year, they have proved to be […]
Pollinators at Work
Today’s post features an image I captured over the weekend. I have 3 patches of Showy Goldenrod planted in the church butterfly garden and all are profusely blooming right now. Being an “end of season” bloomer, the Goldenrod is near the top of the pollinator’s wish list at the buffet table, this late in the […]