Nonchalance

I guess the title says it all.  This little guy turned his back on me and thoroughly ignored me.

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Frog Habitat

Lily pond at Mom's house is looking good this summer.  No frogs yet, though.

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Spaghetti Bomb

I love this stuff, but I have no idea what it is.  You sure don't just reach in and grab some curly-cues out of it, that's for sure!

Click on the photo to see it larger.  Much sharper that way.

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Silver

Couple of honkers cruising through the brilliant dawn fog over Leigh Lake, WY.    I wanted to name this one "Silver Surfers,"  but that's just too derivative, even for me!

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Wet Desert

Deserts are reputed to be warm, dry places where you can go to escape the cold damp northern spring.  Not so, as it turns out.  Southern Utah can be a very wet, muddy, flash-floody, cold place in the spring.  It rained an inch here the night before I took this shot. (which was record so I guess it's not this wet *all* the time!)

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Indian Paintbrush 1

I've been trying to take a worthy photo of Indian Paintbrush for *years* now.  I've finally given up trying to do them justice, and I'm just going to post my weak attempts as I make them.  Thus this is number 1, of many more trials to come, I hope.

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Looking for a Hookah

OK, so this guy is obviously not into hookah.  He likes his leaves green and fresh.  But that's what I was raised to think caterpillars do on their time off -- smoke hookah.  We didn't discuss it; I just moved along.

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