Life on a solid granite block can’t be easy but wherever puddles of water gather, you’ll find these little island ecosystems hanging on to Enchanted...
A Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) soars in front of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, Texas.
We bumped into this Collared Lizard (crotaphytus collaris) while hiking near Ojo Caliente, New Mexico last week. These guys are apparently pretty common...
Another view of the prolific and colourful Arrow-leaf Balsamroot plant that was blooming in Grand Teton National Park during our visit a couple of weeks...
I’ve failed miserably in my attempts to identify these ducklings, seen at Schwabacher Landing in Grand Tetons National Park. Despite having a clear...
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...
