Showy Evening Primroses

Showy Evening Primroses

At first light, there is nothing quite as beautiful as wildflowers backlit from the rising sun. These highly-colorful showy evening primroses were no exception! ~ click on any image to enlarge ~ Showy Evening Primroses Also known as pinkladies, pink evening primrose...
Arachnophilia/Arachnophobia Alert: The Mouse Spider!

Arachnophilia/Arachnophobia Alert: The Mouse Spider!

Ok, ok…. I’ve learned my lesson from a previous spider post: Don’t use a spider in the thumbnail image that gets posted to social media. I really freaked a lot of you out. That said, I’ve got a really cool post about a very cool little invasive...
The Prairie Falcon in Flight!

The Prairie Falcon in Flight!

I’m adding this set of photos a few months after I made them in California because I just wasn’t positively sure what exactly species I was looking at until a very experienced birder friend of mine on Facebook pointed out all the reasons that this is a...
The Wild Bitterroot of Washington’s Sagebrush Country

The Wild Bitterroot of Washington’s Sagebrush Country

One of the absolute best times to visit the wild rolling hills and steep ravines and coulees of Washington’s Columbia Basin is in the late spring. Last week I was traveling around the Vantage, WA are, just east of the mighty Columbia River near Whiskey Dick...
Springtime Chocolate Lilies on the Olympic Peninsula!

Springtime Chocolate Lilies on the Olympic Peninsula!

Besides wild orchids, wild lilies are a favorite of mine when tromping across the country in extremely rural to even semi-urban places. Recently I was in the Olympic National Forest near the shore of Lake Cushman near Hoodsport, WA scoping out new areas to photograph...