Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
The penstemons next to our house here in Southwestern Colorado have been blooming for the last couple of weeks, and they are attracting loads of pollinators. I’ve been spending a lot of time photographing the different types of wasps and…
It’s April 9th, 2023 – Happy Eostre Day. At this time last week we were having snow, wind and rain here in Southwestern Colorado. Now the snow is gone, and it finally feels like Spring is here. I saw my…
In mid-June of 2021, I was hiking along a river in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Their were Aspens trees lining the trail. The sun shone through the Aspen leaves, making them glow. It was very pretty, and I stopped to…
Here’s a nice surprise from the garden last week (May 6, 2022). A White-lined Sphinx Moth was visiting our Phlox flowers. I last saw one of these Moths in early October of 2021, over in Utah.
In late August of 2021, I was out in Southeastern Utah visiting one of my Spadefoot Toad pools. The pool had Sunflowers emerging from the tadpole water. This water was the only source of Sunflowers in the area, most of…
Here’s a neat thing we found on our hike into the San Juan Mountains this morning (Mid June, 2021). It’s a Quaking Aspen leaf that looks as though someone has been doodling on the leaf with a pen. That “doodling”…
In August of 2002, I was camping in the foothills of Arizona’s Whetstone Mountains. I had just gotten a Nikon Coolpix camera, and a screw-on magnifying glass that was acting as a makeshift macro lens. I was walking through the…
A caterpillar eating a Brittlebush leaf. This is from a few years back, in Tucson. The torn wet edge of the leaf looks like a green hamburger that’s been ripped apart. You can see a couple of tiny simple eyes…