A slightly ragged looking little hummingbird
Seen at the Phoenix Zoo.
Looking a bit rough
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Stacked
On a trip through Glacier National Park, we ran across a stack of small thin rocks that someone had made near one of the visitors’ centers:
Maybe it was built on a lark by one person, maybe it was the product of many individuals as they passed through. Just the same, it was a nice bit of whimsy to find in the middle of a long road trip…
Tweets on 2011-02-23
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On the hunt
A shot from our Alaska cruise a few years back:
This came from our near-miss with visiting Victoria, British Columbia. While waiting at sea for the winds to calm (they never did), some were entertained with movies, while the rest of us were entertained by the local gull population.
Lavender and green
Seen at the Yampa River Botanic Park in Steamboat Springs, Colorado:
Democracy Wall, Beijing — 1979
A lifetime ago, I was fortunate enough to be part of a cultural exchange trip to China for a few weeks. It was 1979, and much of the country was just opening up to visitors from outside. When our group travelled through Beijing, it was months after the main activity at the “Democracy Wall,” but some sections of it were still in active use as a community discussion board:
I’d forgotten about this slide (taken with my trusty old OM-1, recently scanned), but current events in Egypt reminded me that I’d never done anything public with this image.
I have to suspect that authorities in China are being very careful w.r.t. how they handle news of the events in Cairo.
Update: turns out, they are…
Sunburst
I saw this at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center; Great Falls, Montana:
It’s a really good museum, and the grounds have been turned into a beautiful display of native flowers. Well worth a look, if you should find yourself in the neighborhood.
Moraine Lake sunset
Another shot from last summer’s road trip to the Canadian Rockies:
This is a shot across Moraine Lake, just at sundown. We scrambled to get there while the light was still up — we were too late to do any hiking around the lake, but at least I was able to get this shot. Or to be precise, three shots combined as an HDR image.
A matter of scale
Taken from a bend in the highway on our Canadian rockies road trip last summer:
Living near the Rockies in Colorado, I never ceased to be amazed how much bigger they look in Canada — thanks to the glaciers, the valleys just got ground down that much deeper. For a true sense of scale, look for the cars and trucks on the highway here…