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– – – – – – – – – – – – – PAST BLASTS from FALL, Y’ALL – – – – – – – – – – – – –

[1993 – 2022]

Gambel oaks, aspens, Cimarron Ridge - Forest Road 858, Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado [2021]


&spspspspspspspsps;Raindrops on leaves - Jones Gap State Park, South Carolina [1993]&pspspspsps;Frost-rimmed leaves - Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina [1994]

&spspspsp;Early morning fog, mountain ridges - Greenville County, South Carolina [2014]&spspspsps;View from Artist Palette - Death Valley National Park, California [2019]

Aspens, gambel oaks, snow-covered Sneffels Range - from Dallas Divide, Ouray County, Colorado [2009]


&spspspsp;Chimney Rock - Capitol Reef National Park, Utah [2019]&spspspsps;Metate Arch - Hole-in-the-Rock Road, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah [2019]

&spspspspspspspsps;Rabbitbrush, cottonwoods, The Castle - Capitol Reef National Park, Utah [2019]&pspspspsps;Fall color, sandstone walls - Riverside Walk, Zion National Park, Utah [2019]

&spspspsp;Sand dunes, sun star - Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California [2019]&spspspsps;Snow-dusted sandstone cliffs - Wayne County, Utah [2021]

Looking Glass Falls - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina [2022]


&spspspsp;Fall colors, Lake of the Clouds - Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan [2014]&spspspsps;“Liquid Gold” - Tellico River, Cherohala Skyway, Tennessee [2012]

&spspspsp;Chalk bark maple leaves - Bonsai Garden, North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, North Carolina [2022]&spspspsps;Fall colors, Davidson River - Sycamore Flats Recreation Area, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina [2022]

Aspens, Red Mountain No. 1 - Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado [2007]


&spspspsp;Backlit sugar maple leaves - Carrick Creek Trail, Table Rock State Park, South Carolina [2014]&spspspsps;Cascades on the Middle Saluda River, fall colors - Jones Gap State Park, South Carolina [2018]

&spspspsp;Hooker Falls - Dupont State Recreational Forest, North Carolina [2022]&spspspsps;Red maple leaves - Bent Creek Experimental Forest, North Carolina [2010]

&spspspspspspspsps;Cascades on the Middle Saluda River - Jones Gap Trail, Jones Gap State Park, South Carolina [2022]&pspspspsps;Fall colors along Looking Glass Creek - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina [2022]

“Aspens Aplenty” - Forest Road 858, Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado [2009]


&spspspsp;View from Inspiration Point - Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah [2019]&spspspsps;Abraham Peak (far left), Isaac Peak (middle), Jacob Peak (far right) - Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah [2019]

&spspspsp;Pine tree, Entrada sandstone - Garfield County, Utah [2019]&spspspsps;Hayden Mountain - from Ouray, Colorado [2021]

Dew on leaves - Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan [2014]


&spspspsp;Fall colors south of Crystal Lake - San Juan Skyway, Colorado [2021]&spspspsps;Fall colors - East Fork Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina [2022]

Fall colors, reflection in Pinnacle Lake - Table Rock State Park, South Carolina [2010]

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – UTAH – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

[July 2024]

Single-head sunflowers - Catherine Pass Trailhead, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah

Blue-crowned motmot - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah


&spspspsp;Trumpeter swan - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsps;Milky eagle owl - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah

Alpine Jacob’s Ladder - Albion Meadow, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspspspsp;Cosmos - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsP;Colorado columbine - Albion Basin, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspspspspi;Wild iris - Silver Lake Trail, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah&spspspspspspsp;Sticky geranium - Silver Lake Trail, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah

Reflection in Silver Lake; Mt. Millicent (left; 10,452 feet) - Silver Lake Trail, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspsp;Bridal Veil Falls (607 feet high) - Provo Canyon, Utah&spspspsps;Mt. Timpanogos massif - from Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah

Ground squirrel - Cecret (not a misspelling) Lake Trail, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspsp;Black-eyed Susans 'Indian Summer' - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsps;Agave - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah


&spspspsp;Globe thistle - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsps;Coneflowers - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah

Coneflowers with bumblebee - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah


&spspspsp;Canna lily - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsps;Cabbage white butterfly on lavender - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah


&spspspsp;Cheyenne Spirit Coneflowers with Undaunted Ruby® Muhly Grass - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah&spspspsps;Daylily - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah

Allium seed head with Cheyenne Spirit Coneflowers - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Salt Lake City, Utah


&spspspspspspspsps;Elephant heads - Albion Basin, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah&pspspspsps;Police Car moth, subalpine arnica - Monument Trailhead, Mt. Nebo Scenic Byway, Uinta National Forest, Utah

Silvery Lupine - Albion Meadow, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspsp;Indian paintbrush - Catherine Pass Trail, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah&spspspsps;Indian paintbrush - Albion Basin, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah

Colorado columbine - Albion Basin, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah


&spspspsp;Subalpine arnica, Bald Mountain - Bald Mountain Overlook, Mt. Nebo Scenic Byway, Uinta National Forest, Utah&spspspsps;Mt. Nebo (summit, just left of center, 11,928 feet) - Mt. Nebo Overlook, Mt. Nebo Scenic Byway, Uinta National Forest, Utah

Bridal Veil Falls (607 feet high) - Provo Canyon, Utah

– – – – – – – – – – – SOUTH CAROLINA and NORTH CAROLINA – – – – – – – – – – –

[May-June 2024]

Iris - Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina


&spspspsp;Rose - Rose Garden, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina&spspspsps;Magnolia blossom - Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina

&spspspsp;Spiderwort - Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina&spspspsps;Daylily - Greenville County, South Carolina

Looking Glass Falls - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina


&spspspspspspspsps;Mountain laurel - Forest Road 450, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina&pspspspsps;Daisy fleabane - Art Loeb Trail, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

&spspspsp;Slick Rock Falls - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina&spspspsps;Triple Falls - Dupont State Recreational Forest, North Carolina

Great spangled fritillary butterflies on purple coneflower - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina


&spspspsp;Horse nettle - Art Loeb Trail, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina&spspspsps;Cascade on Looking Glass Creek - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

&spspspsp;Unnamed falls on Looking Glass Creek - Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina&spspspsps;Flame azalea - Cherry Cove Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – ARIZONA – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

[April 2024]

Brittlebush, saguaros - David Yetman Trail, Tucson Mountain Park, Pima County, Arizona


&spspspsp;Great horned owl - Raptor Free-flight Demonstration, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Caracara - Raptor Free-flight Demonstration, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona
 

Claret cup cactus - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona


&spspspsp;Harris’s hawk - Raptor Free-flight Demonstration, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Saguaros - Saguaro Vista Trail, Steve Anderson Sweetwater Preserve, Pima County, Arizona
 

&spspspsp;Brittlebush, saguaros - Saguaro Vista Trail, Steve Anderson Sweetwater Preserve, Pima County, Arizona&spspspsps;American coot - Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona
 

Cinnamon teals (male in front, female in back) - Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona


&spspspsp;Brittlebush, saguaros - Tucson Mountain Park, Pima County, Arizona&spspspsps;Backlit saguaros - Saguaro Vista Trail, Steve Anderson Sweetwater Preserve, Pima County, Arizona
 

Saguaros - Saguaro Vista Trail, Steve Anderson Sweetwater Preserve, Pima County, Arizona


&spspspsp;Taveta golden weaver - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Gold-breasted starling - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona
 

&spspspspspspspsps;Peacock - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona&pspspspsps;Bearded barbet - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona
 

One-month-old African elephant staying close to mom - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona


&spspspsp;Juvenile red-tailed hawk - Pima County, Arizona&spspspsps;Anna's hummingbird - Pima County, Arizona
 

Cape thick-knee - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona


&spspspsp;Red and yellow barbet - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Scarlet-faced liocichla - Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, Arizona
 

California poppies, saguaros - Nature Trail, Catalina State Park, Arizona


&spspspspspspi;Red-spine barrel cactus - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona&spspspspspspsp;Comb hedgehog cactus - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona

&spspspspspsp;Bundle-spine hedgehog cactus - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsP;California poppies - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona
 

Horned lizard - Nature Trail, Catalina State Park, Arizona


&spspspsp;Rose 'FRIDA KAHLO' - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Columbine - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona
 

Long-mamma cactus - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona


&spspspsp;Giant swallowtail butterfly, puddling - Pima County, Arizona&spspspsps;Lizard - Pima County, Arizona
 

Hybrid torch cactus - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona

Mourning dove and chicks in nest in teddy bear cholla - Pima County, Arizona


&spspspsp;Grandiflora rose 'ABOUT FACE' - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona&spspspsps;Rusty-tipped page butterfly - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona
 

Bearded iris 'JITTERBUG' - Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona

 

– – – – – – – – – – – – – NORTH CAROLINA and SOUTH CAROLINA – – – – – – – – – – – – –

[March – April 2024]

Vasey's trillium (Trillium vaseyi) - Talking Trees Trail, Holmes Educational State Forest, North Carolina


&spspspspspspspsps;Chickweed, dwarf crested iris - Talking Trees Trail, Holmes Educational State Forest, North Carolina&pspspspsps;Pink lady slipper - Ashmore Heritage Preserve, Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area, South Carolina
 

Sweet white trillium (Trillium simile) - Talking Trees Trail, Holmes Educational State Forest, North Carolina


&spspspsp;Catesby's trillium (Trillium catesbaei) - Ashmore Heritage Preserve, Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area, South Carolina&spspspsps;Fringed iris - Kilgore-Lewis Garden, Greenville, South Carolina
 

&spspspspspspspsps;Toadshade trillium (Trillium sessile) - Melrose Falls Trail, Conserving Carolina Land Trust Property, Polk County, North Carolina&pspspspsps;Wake robin trillium, Vasey's trillium (Trillium erectum var. album, Trillium vaseyi) - Talking Trees Trail, Holmes Educational State Forest, North Carolina

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – FLORIDA – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

[January 2024]

Shells - Caspersen Beach, Sarasota County, Florida

Waves breaking on limestone rocks - Caspersen Beach, Sarasota County, Florida


&spspspsp;Royal tern - Venice Fishing Pier, Venice, Florida&spspspsps;East coast dune sunflower - Caspersen Beach, Sarasota County, Florida

Shoreline on Venice Beach - from Venice Fishing Pier, Venice, Florida


&spspspsp;Shells - Caspersen Beach, Sarasota County, Florida&spspspsps;Snowy egret - Venice Fishing Pier, Venice, Florida

Gulf of Mexico shoreline, approaching storm clouds - Nokomis Beach, Nokomis, Florida


&spspspspspsp;Great blue heron gathering nesting material - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida&spspspsP;Great blue heron and chick - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida

American alligator - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida

Female anhinga - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida


&spspspspspspspsps;Snowy egret - New Pass, Sarasota, Florida&pspspspsps;Nanday parakeet - The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida

&spspspsp;Sunflower - Bay Street Park, Osprey, Florida&spspspsps;Gulf fritillary - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida

Great egret with breeding plumage - Venice Audubon Rookery, Venice, Florida


&spspspsp;Palm warbler - Palmer Boardwalk, The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida&spspspsps;Glossy ibis stretching its right wing - Raymond Boardwalk, The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida

Savannah sparrow - Birdwalk Boardwalk, Myakka River State Park, Florida


&spspspsp;Hibiscus - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida&spspspsps;Rainbow gum bark - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida

Morton bay fig roots - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida


&spspspsp;Phalaenopsis orchid - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida&spspspsps;Bromeliad - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida

Cross-hatched palm fronds - Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida

Purple gallinule - Palmer Boardwalk, The Celery Fields, Sarasota, Florida

Sandhill crane - Myakka River State Park, Florida


&spspspspspsp;Postman butterfly - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida&spspspsP;Lantern mallow - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

Emerald swallowtail butterfly - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida


&spspspsp;Grey zebra finches - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida&spspspsps;Tailed jay butterfly - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

Amazon lily - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

Firefinch - Butterfly Rainforest, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida