Random Photos

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A random taste of photos:
Macro of a natural salt marsh. A brightly colored kayaker paddles by tufa towers in Mono Lake. These plants on the salt marsh resemble something one might find underwater.
Painted Desert landscape with a cloud-dotted blue sky. A snail reaches for the sky while climbing out of a cardboard box. Interesting mountain shapes and shadows near Mammoth Lakes.
A pine tree near Mammoth Lakes. (If anyone knows the species, please let me know and I\'ll add the info!) Rock formation on a beach landscape. Morro Rock centered in the distance. Back of a yellow sunflower with ants.
Giant yellow flower on a zucchini plant. Pine tree needles and bark. Waimea Canyon, also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, seen from a helicopter.
A vacant paper wasp nest held in the palm of my hand. The nest is constructed of open hexagonal cells in which the young develop. \ Red rock mountains in Sedona.
Closeup of red and yellow leaves or petals of a tropical plant. Tree-rich hills in Pacheco State Park, California. This lumpy bumpy strange red sea creature is called a frogfish.
A boardwalk bridge spans stagnant green water in a salt marsh. Paw prints (probably raccoon) and bird tracks in dried mud. Lavender or purple flower against a blurred green background.
Petrified wood in this desolate landscape has been fossilized and turned to stone. A greenish-yellow wildflower. It looks like maybe the buds haven\'t opened yet. Wonderful geology in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, from Hwy 120.
Giant yellow flower on a zucchini plant. 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. The setting sun casts slanting rays on green hills.
A black and purple wasp-like creature with red legs and a long stinger or ovipositor (egg-laying organ). Possibly a female Ichneumon wasp -- Pimpla? If someone knows for sure, I\'d love to be enlightened! This building reminded me of an old decrepit church. (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. A green rowboat chained on the shore at Horseshoe Lake.
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