images as thoughts
A Dusky Grouse keeping quiet while waiting for us to move along as we walked through the cottonwood trees in the creek bed. Seeing these birds move through the dry leaves and into the cottonwood trees with colors so similar to their own just makes a fall day feel…just like fall.
Layers of color in a layered land. Northern Colorado near the Wyoming Border.
Quietly perched and giving us the 180 degree head turn like only an owl can give a Great Horned Owl waits in the early evening light for their day to begin.
Happy hunting to the owl and have a great weekend to all.
Beyond the noise there is quiet. It’s getting more difficult to find but I’ve heard it does exist.
Here’s to a noise free weekend.
While the weather posed no threat the clouds just seemed to grow and grow as the day went on.
And although the landscape was brilliant the combination of earth and sky called out to be seen as one. The ridge-line and sky combined to become the one that they already are.
Above the ridge,
the ridge the clouds call home.
It is always a surprise when we look closely and find a flies eyes attached to what we thought was a bees body. Using Batesian mimicry to look like a bee when your really a fly a bee-fly mimic and yellow-jacket mmimic enjoy a sip of nectar from a late blooming sedum plant.
It is always a surprise and reason to take a closer look at the insects in the garden.
The clouds weighed on the earth like a weight on this October day yet colors sprang forth to brighten the landscape.
Just a bit of snow lingers around the thermal features on Firehole drive although the next round is on its way.
Finding color on a cloudy day where color abounds.
