aspens and willows
embrace in delight
cottonwoods drink from the stream
Tag: wildflowers
Spring color
A splash of spring colors. No flowers this early but the blue, blue skies and red and orange willows make it feel like winter is a thing of the past even with snow covering the ground and ice on the creek.
Happy spring to you all.
Or Autumn for you all down south of the equator.
Mid-Winter Break
Although the calendar says otherwise the third week of January always feels like mid-winter to me. Yes, the cold and snow will hang for a few months, maybe more, there is just something about this time that portends a turning point somewhere deep inside.
So today it’s time to take a break and remember that sweet summer air will return again.
Sunrise on the Grasslands
It is easy to feel the connectedness when the sun rises over the vast expanse of grasslands. Getting the opportunity to experience the prairie sunrise is a wonderful opportunity and this project to provide a hut-to-hut experience out in the grasslands is worth supporting.
https://www.americanprairie.org/project/hut-to-hut-system
‘Infinite Landscape’ exhibit benefits American Prairie Reserve
The Fungus Among Us
I have always found mushrooms fascinating life forms. Not plant, not animal yet vitally important for the health of both plants and animals. However, they are a bugger to photograph yet I never stop trying.
Paul Stamets wrote a great book on Fungus call Mycellium running and delivered this inserting TED talk several years ago:
As Seasons Change
When the seasons change there is nothing more to do do but sit and watch the show. Because the show must go on.
Near Leadville, CO.
Blue Tips
A bit of blue still lingering as snows have come and gone this fall. The beauty of the summer flowers dressed in fall colors never ceases to delight the eyes. Photographed near Crested Butte, CO several weeks ago.
At days end
Fall colors on display as the sun close out another beautiful day.
Leaves and Lake
Golden fall colors reflecting upon Crown Hill lake. Wheat Ridge, CO.
Fur Coats
Tow different alpine moths each wearing fur coats forage up high in the mountains of central Colorado.
Photographed in early September.
Just an hour after posting this I came across a news story describing the decline of insects by 75% in Germany. I am sure this is happening globally to varying decrees. This sixth extinction caused by our human species will have consequences and is affecting life big and small. A link to the study is provided below:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809
nature has no boss 
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