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Beautiful male Blue-wing Teal duck in full display plumage slowly maneuvering its way through a tangle of cattail stalks to open water.
Dainty Checkered Skipper warming on a spent Queen Ann's Lace flower head at the edge of an Alfalfa Field.
Uncommon and cute.
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Shelly Fabres - Johnny Angel
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Marcie Blane - Bobby's Girl
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Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry
Sunset over the desert
Skull Valley, Utah - GPS is the exact spot of the photo.
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Finally, the temps feel like Spring as 2016's first Honey Bee (for me) visits an awakening Grecian Wildflower in my garden.
The west side of Butterfield Canyon is in a different county, and the name changes to Middle Canyon Road
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This Golden Crowned Sparrow was very busy munching on tender leaves in the bush. And he was even kind enough to share with others, maybe not of the human type. Although often overlooked the lowly Sparrow is a very beautiful bird with many different types in its large family. They photograph well and have a variety of beautiful markings and colors.
Nymphoides crenata, commonly known as wavy marshwort, is an aquatic perennial herb of the family Menyanthaceae endemic to Australia, found in all mainland states and the Northern Territory. It is a stoloniferous, floating, perennial with stems up to 3 m long. The petioles of the basal leaves are from 8–42 cm long. The leaf lamina are ovate to circular, and deeply cordate and vary from 3 to 15 cm in length. The stem leaves are smaller, and sometimes kidney-shaped. The flowers heterostylous, (see the gallery) and there can be from 8 to14 in clusters subtended by 1–4 stem leaves, or sometimes in spaced pairs along a short inflorescence. The calyx is from 5.5 to 16 mm long and the corolla from 20 to 50 mm in diameter. There are usually 4 lobes (sometimes 4 or 6) and there are usually 5 stigmas (but from 2-5). It grows on floodplains, in swamps, lagoons, irrigation channels, and also in temporarily inundated depressions, and in slow-flowing streams where the depth of the water is up to about 1.5 m deep, usually on mud, and it will persist on drying mud. 13171
One of the ways into the Deseret Peak Wilderness into the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
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We had some rain this past week, and the salt bed holds it nicely. All those little bumps are the uneven salt in paper-thin water that will be gone within days.
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Tiny female European Skipper butterfly clinging to a leaf on a breezy afternoon. (2016)
Common and abundant during the Summer.
This is taken from the stand that overlooks the Brownington Academy in Vermont. This is the view in the opposite direction: www.flickr.com/photos/195136680@N07/52383353193/in/datepo...
Massive panorama taken in the middle of the Fire Wave looking from side to side.
Take a look at the Max Zoom and try to find the one person visible in the shot. (No, it's not a trick like someone's thumb in the corner... it's a full person hidden somewhere in the photo.)
Max zoom: gtwy.net/pano/TheFireWave/
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You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
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Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
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Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
Both of these taken Sunday morning. I was there to shoot my "classic black and gold" photos, but ended up seeing a pretty awesome sunrise, too.
In this version, the sky has formed some colors but isn't yet bright enough to wash out the city lights. The city lights are still very vibrant and reflect brightly against the dark river. The clouds frame the buildings perfectly.
Final photo to follow later today...
3-photo HDR. Zoom in for a better view.
The Virgin River winds its way towards the Watchman below a delicious sky lit up as the sun sets. One of a series taken from the bridge at Canyon Junction - this was the 3rd best combination of sky and light on the Watchman from that series.
Sheer sandstone cliffs up to 500 feet (152 meters) high line this famous gorge.
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