The Patient Assassin

 

An assassin bug waits patiently in a bougainvillea blossom.
Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Moonrise under Warbonnet Peak

 

Late light on Warbonnet peak, as the moon looks for a way around it.  Warbonnet guards the southern entrance to the Cirque of the Towers in Wyoming's Wind River range.  It is truly impressive from any angle.

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The Face of the American West

 

It's probably cliche, but I think bison are just cool.  Even when they're only standing around being cold.  This is dawn in the GTNP last January-- just getting around to looking at some of the shots from that day.

Winter's Coming

 

A foggy dawn in Grand Teton NP (last winter).  It's not here yet, but the weather is turning over, the flowers are sagging, the spiders are looking for hiding places, and I can feel winter creeping up on me.

Halloween Candidate 2

 

... or maybe this one.  I love this shot because you see all her big brown eyes at once, while she stabs venom into her still-struggling victim.

 

 

Halloween Candidate 1

 

The first day of Halloween is almost here, and I'm trying to choose a mascot pic for the great day.  Should I go with this one, or...?

Fibonacci Loved Flowers

 

I know you don't want to look at cool spiders venomizing their hapless prey for too long, so here's a cone flower, up really close and personal.  Be sure to zoom way in to see all that polleny glory!

If you didn't get the title reference, here's a classic Vi Hart explanation of Fibonacci sequences, spirals, and pine cones: https://youtu.be/ahXIMUkSXX0

Garden Burrito!

 

Laura found this big ol' gal in her flowers, so I went and got the camera.  We were just having a lazy photo shoot together-- her completely motionless, me trying to get focus-- when all of a sudden dinner arrived! She shot across the web so fast I couldn't track her.  When I did catch up, she was busy wrapping up her burrito.  I got several shots of the spinning process. Pretty cool, if you're not the fly.

Vixen

 Cute little redhead that dropped by.