Random Photos

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A random taste of photos:
Waves near the rocky coast before a foggy blurred horizon. A fallen coconut at the mouth of the Wailua River, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. Gentle waves lap the shore at Hanalei Bay.
Wildflowers color a hillside in Pacheco State Park, California. Tall tufa tower at Mono Lake. A male seagull, closeup of the head in profile.
Waimea Canyon, also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. Purple coral with yellow tentacles. I believe this is plate coral, a large polyp stony (LPS) coral often referred to as a Disk, Mushroom, Chinaman, Fungia Plate, or Tongue Coral. A towering redwood tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Meteor Crater, a meteorite impact crater near Winslow Arizona (and the largest in the United States). This is either a Sharp-shinned Hawk or a Cooper\'s Hawk, eating a smaller bird. I believe it is a juvenile (fledged some weeks ago). This hawk family lived in a eucalyptus tree on a golf course. An American flag flies proudly over a patio near Morro Rock.
Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls, Idaho. You can see a waterfall in the distance on the right. This is either a Sharp-shinned Hawk or a Cooper\'s Hawk, eating a smaller bird. I believe it is a juvenile (fledged some weeks ago). This hawk family lived in a eucalyptus tree on a golf course. Petrified wood in this desolate landscape has been fossilized and turned to stone.
Grand Canyon Supergroup - Hakatai Sandstone - 1,180 million year old rock. Two white mushrooms in green grass. Colorful plants grow on the bank of the green waters of a salt marsh.
Seabirds at Morro Bay, California. (If anyone knows the species, please let me know and I\'ll add the info!) Petrified wood in this desolate landscape has been fossilized and turned to stone. Marsh water curves through a colorful landscape.
Hummingbird hovering in flight above a hanging feeder. Salt beds form a strange landscape. Tufa towers frame snow-dotted mountains at Mono Lake.
Sun-bleached driftwood log on the beach. Sign above a restroom: \ An old decrepit abandoned building in the toxic dead tree zone near Mammoth Mountain. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins.
Spigots against a red brick wall. Sea cave under Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, Maui. Seabirds at Morro Bay, California.
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