Posted in Butterflies, Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on July 31, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I met this little butterfly in the Patrick’s Knob roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of Western Montana. I didn’t know his name and I didn’t even know the name of his flower, but I did know that his species and his whole world is in danger of vanishing forever…
at the hands of [...]
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Posted in Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on July 30, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Fireweed always provides a bitter-sweet feeling for me, but it does proffer the choice of contemplating beauty or tragedy in the ashes of what was once a bright green forest scene.
For some reason I have always viewed them as whole flowers, usually large groups of whole flowers. Today, perhaps because the drought that is holding [...]
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Posted in Butterflies, Clouds, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Sunrise on July 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
It was an orange day, from the clouds at sun rise
to the lilies in the late afternoon. I wonder, why orange?
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Not a bad start for a day.
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As soon as I saw him this baby Cottontail just captivated me and so I posted this today instead of what I had planned to. He’s hardly any larger than a softball, and in my opinion has the concept of “cute” all wrapped up! He certainly should not have let me get that close though.
This [...]
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All summer I’ve been trying to get a decent photo of one of these beautiful birds with no luck at all. This morning, when I wasn’t looking for them at all, this little gal buzzed right in front of me and started feeding on the petunias in one of my wife’s hanging pots. Luckily I [...]
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This late in the summer there are not many new flowers blooming around here but this plant has just begun. The plant itself is ugly but the blossom is pretty (at least I think it is) and people for many centuries have used it for all kinds of medicinal purposes.
This little lady finds the [...]
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Posted in Animals, Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, White-tail deer on July 25, 2007 | 10 Comments »
The joy of new life and the pleasant expectation of tomorrow…
The world just would not be nearly as bright if the wild country were gone and this could no longer be seen.
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Quiet and unassuming by day,
a fearsome protector of the wild country by night.
“Who was that masked Munk?”
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What a difference 180ยบ makes. These two photos were taken at about 8:30 last night, the first toward the west, the second toward the east. They were taken ten minutes apart.
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