I’m out of town for Thanksgiving this week and haven’t been taking many pictures so didn’t post for the last few days. I’ve just...
A carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) foraging inside a wild garlic flower. This is really more a shot of the flower than the beetle and I love the subtle...
Some of the nigella flowers at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, May 2nd, 2020.
Foxgloves were blooming everywhere we went in Scotland this summer. Here’s one we found on the walk around the Wallace Monument near Stirling.
I decided to try something new yesterday so I broke out the macro lens and had a shot at focus stacking. This is a technique used to generate sharp, close-up...
One of the thousands of orchids at the Garden of the Sleeping Giant near Nadi on Fiji’s Vita Levu island. We spent the morning there during a one day split...
Mimosa pudica is a small plant, often classified as a weed, that is pretty common around Texas. Its claim to fame, and the reason that so many kids love...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The landscape around here on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii is pretty striking. This area is in the rain shadow of Mauna Lua and Mauna Kea and,...
