I don’t know specific cactus species, but when I am near them I feel compelled to take close-up photos of the spines. These are assorted photos from Colorado, California, South Dakota, and Arizona.
Category: USA
While we’re reliving the Colorado visit, let’s take a look at some lizards. I was not expecting to see lizards in Colorado, so these were always fun surprises.
I might have to schedule another visit to Colorado sometime soon. These critters are back from my visit in 2021.
I asked about these road signs when I was visiting Congaree National Park, and the answer was that they are meant to make you think instead of just driving by in your normal routine… I like it.
During my last visit to Florida, I managed to catch some birds with their next generation in different stages of development… See if you can figure out which species are here…
More grizzlies from the Tetons…
Just some landscapes from my visit to Badlands National Park last year… Including a couple from my last day there when the haze and smoke from the Canadian wildfires rolled in.
I recently got word that my friend Katherine completed her scuba instructor certification and I also got word that my friend Eric successfully underwent a surgery, which made me think about PNW diving… so here are the rest of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker photos from…
These first couple are from Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes – and I have to admit that this is what I was expecting to see more of when I first though of visiting deserts, but this is the first set of “proper” sand dunes I’ve encountered.…
The Grizzlies usually take the majority of the attention while in the Grand Tetons, but Black Bears are just as nice to see.
Just some spring wild flowers from when I visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park earlier this year…
It was exactly a year ago today that I took these videos of these very young Bighorn Sheep – or as I like to call them, Little Bighorns. If you look closely, some of them still have their umbilical cord attached.
This colorful Fringeback Dondice (Dondice occidentalis) was found during one of the dives on my most recently Florida visit.
Last summer, I visited Black Moshannon State Park with my friend Rich. The water there is full of tanins and looks like a dark brown color though it is otherwise clear. But I have never seen so many water lilies in my life… I wished…
Much rarer than the Striped Bumblebee Shrimp (which I can usually find on almost every dive at the Blue Heron Bridge), this was the first and only time I have ever found a Spotted Bumblebee Shrimp (Gnathophyllum modestum) so far.