At the beginning of June, Grand Tetons National Park was sprinkled with large, yellow, somewhat daisy or sunflower-like flowers. A bit of Googling indicated...
By the end of the Grand Tetons trip, I was sure that I was some kind of wildlife deterrent. Whenever I was in a vehicle, we missed seeing animals, yet,...
The common raven (corvus corax) is incredibly common inside Grand Tetons National Park. Apparently, they’ve reached pest status with their population...
How about a change of pace? Here’s a purple coneflower taken at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center a couple of weeks ago. The landscapes there...
Today’s 4-H Photography Group meeting was out at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center again. We shot flowers, insects and general nature images....
A scene from Sequoias National Park in California seen during a trip I took back in 2012. You really don’t get a good impression of the enormity...
A Longwing Butterfly seen at the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
On our way back from Fredericksburg this weekend, we stopped in Johnson City to look at a couple of galleries and discovered an arts and crafts fair going...
For a couple of weeks every year, normally in late March or early April, the Texas hill country is a sea of blue thanks to the millions of bluebonnets...
Another of the friendly Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) found on the island of Lunga just off the island of Mull just off the west coast of Scotland....
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is one of my favourite places to visit when I need a fix of macro photography. Their displays attract many different...
This shot of a white egret was taken several years ago during a trip we took down to South Padre Island at the southern tip of Texas. The Birding and Nature...
For the second of my 7 “Nature Challenge” images, here’s one of an Owl Butterfly (genus Caligo but there are many species and I’m...
A couple of days ago, Ernie Romer challenged me to post a nature picture each day for the next 7 days so here we go. I’m delving into the archive...
I read a story in the paper this morning about an impasse in the Texas government over whether or not to ban the practice of catching rattlesnakes by flushing...
It’s about time we had another puffin picture, I reckon. Here’s an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) seen on the island of Lunga, part of the Treshnish...
A Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this past summer.
I’m still delving through collections of unprocessed images from past trips. Today’s photo was taken during our very first NxNW get-together...
A macro shot of the wing of an Owl Butterfly seen at the Cockerell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This was taken with my trusty...
An inquisitive harbour seal keeping watch from the water at Fishermans Wharf in Victoria, British Columbia. Four of five of these seals live in the harbour...
