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Butterflies (7 images in album) (click image to view album)As I was sitting around enjoying my coffee this morning I was trying to think of something for today’s post and I settled on butterflies. As guess that is real “serendipity,” right? Whatever strikes me as a good idea at the moment. There are seven images [...]

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Yosemite (5 images in album) (click image to view album) A collection of five photos from earlier in the decade from a couple of trips to Yosemite National Park. In fact, 3 of them (Half Dome sunset, El Capitan, and the Bridal Veil Rainbow) are from before digital, I’m guessing circa 2001 or so. It’s [...]

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Colorful Rocks (click image to view larger) In the southern region of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – east of Kanab just off U.S. Highway 89 – is a area featuring colorful rocks near the Pareah Townsite. Triassic in age, the banded rocks are of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation, quite a [...]

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A River & Some Rock Art (click image to view album) On an adventure earlier in the week I had the chance to visit some interesting places and snap a few photos. The first image is from Horseshoe Bend in Arizona just south of page. A few miles south of Glen Canyon Dam the Colorado [...]

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Four Butterflies of Utah’s High Plateaus (click image to view album) On Thursday of this week I drove up to the top of the Table Cliff Plateau, which rises to the northeast about 15 miles from Bryce Canyon. It is a place I have looked in the past for butterflies and wildflowers, and it seemed [...]

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Temple of the Moon – Capitol Reef National Park (click image to view larger) Cathedral Valley lies at the northern end of Capitol Reef National Park and is accessed via roads that aren’t necessarily for the faint of heart. Cathedral Valley actually has two sections, upper and lower, and Temple of the Sun, Temple of [...]

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Sea Otter – Monterey, California (click image to view larger) Yesterday was “Endangered Species Day” and, to wrap up the week, here’s a Sea Otter from my archives. Photographed in a kelp bed near Monterey, the Southern, or California, Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) is a threatened species that lives along the Central California coast. [...]

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Red Knots (click image to view album) For International Migratory Bird Day, a slideshow featuring 7 different species of migratory birds: Red Knot – Only one bird species, Arctic Tern, migrates a greater distance than Calidris canutus rufa, the North American subspecies of Red Knot. Their breeding grounds are in the Canadian Arctic, and most [...]

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Sunrise at Inspiration Point – Bryce Canyon National Park (click image to view larger) National Park Week wraps up this weekend and, to close out my week of national park images, this shot from Inspiration Point as the Sun first appears over the eastern horizon.

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Logan Canyon – Cache National Forest (click image to view larger) In northern Utah U.S. Highway 89, which you can drive from the U.S./Canada border near Glacier National Park almost all the way to Phoenix, AZ, passes through scenic Logan Canyon and the Cache National Forest. This image was made near the headwaters of the [...]

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