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Semipalmated Sandpiper, Provincetown, MA.
Varileaf Cinquefoil. Olympic National Park, WA.
Sedona, AZ. (2019). 1 of 2
Dense smoke from the 3,500-acre Whiskey Fire blankets the Verde Valley as hot air balloons rise in the morning air. Our pilot, who has been flying over Sedona for 45 years, says he has never seen it like this.
Sedona, AZ. (2019). 2 of 2
Dense smoke from the 3,500-acre Whiskey Fire blankets the Verde Valley as hot air balloons rise in the morning air. Our pilot, who has been flying over Sedona for 45 years, says he has never seen it like this.
Whiskered Screech-owl, Portal AZ.
There are only a few remote mountain canyons in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico where this species can be found in the US.
Four Elk. Rocky Mountain National Park, CO.
No Winter. Eaton, NH.
Panamint Rattlesnake, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, NV
Common Sunflower and Foxtail Barley, native prairie plants, on the Stronghold Unit of Badlands National Park, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
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Bill, WY, June 2017. I found a bridge where I could watch passing coal trains from the Powder River Basin of Eastern Wyoming, North America's busiest coal region. (Edited on YouTube, so I added some music).
"...the earth is a continually sensuous thing, out there where one can see it with minimal interference." - Merrill Gilfillan, "Magpie Rising."
Sunrise, Badlands National Park, SD.
Canada Jay, White Mountain National Forest, NH.
Bighorn Sheep. Rocky Mountain National Park, CO.
Chiricahua Fox Squirrel. Portal, AZ.
Normally shy, it is a subspecies of Mexican Fox Squirrel, found in the US only in the remote mountains of southeastern Arizona.
Black-crowned Night-heron. Big Cypress National Preserve, FL.
Pine Grosbeak (female). Fryeburg, ME.
Snowy Egret before the storm.
Estero, FL.
The Colors of a Pheasant. Eaton, NH.
Black Skimmer, Estero, FL.
Olympic National Park, WA.
The fog finally lifted, revealing this Columbian Black-tailed doe.
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Snapping turtles hatching. Freedom, NH.
Olympic National Park, WA.
Badlands National Park, SD.
Last Day of November. Eaton, NH.
Ruddy Turnstones, Estero, FL.
"...there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Green Heron. Big Cypress National Preserve, FL.
Joder, Nebraska.
Bear Cub, Big Bend National Park, TX
Delray Beach, FL
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Everglades National Park, FL.
Apache, AZ.
Freedom, NH.
Misted autumn morn
What is left of summer leaves
A season of ghosts
- Sylvie Essex.
Nebraska.
Photo featured in "Us of America" magazine, Winter 2018.
Wood Stork. Big Cypress National Preserve, FL.
Late Summer, Eaton, NH.
Whiting, VT
"There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider: avocets, stilts, and stones. Peace is the perspective found in patterns. When I see ring-billed gulls picking on the flesh of decaying carp, I am less afraid of death. We are no more and no less than the life that surrounds us. My fears surface in my isolation. My serenity surfaces in my solitude." - Terry Tempest Wiliams, Refuge.
Female anhinga, Ft. Myers, FL
Young Elk. Rocky Mountain National Park, CO.
Too Much at Once.
Thunder Basin National Grassland, WY.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. (1 of 2).
I watched the sun rise over the most beautiful desert I've ever seen...
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. (2 of 2).
...then I stood at the fence until border patrol chased me away.