by Rich Leighton | Jan 15, 2014
I find that the more I travel around the Western United States in search of rare native wildflowers and orchids, the more my curiosity and fondness grows for members of the genus Castilleja. Commonly known as Indian paintbrushes, these beautiful and variable...
by Rich Leighton | Aug 20, 2013
Yesterday afternoon and into the evening, I was on a family hiking trip as opposed to a serious photography trip to the Northern Cascades near the Washington/British Columbia border where I ran into a colony of American pikas on a subalpine hillside near Cascade Pass....
by Rich Leighton | Jul 30, 2013
No matter where you live or travel in the entire world, one of the most common types of mammal you are going to encounter are squirrels (with the exception of Antarctica and the Arctic Circle). There are more than 200 species that not only live, but thrive in just...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 20, 2013
Over the past decade, the amount of native North American native wildflowers in our ever-growing photo galleries has reached the point to where we can’t reasonably split and categorize them just by color. It started to look disorganized, confusing, and more than a...
by Rich Leighton | May 9, 2013
*As I was putting together images for this post, and finishing up editing my images of the California kingsnake, “Like a California King” by Everclear just happened to start playing on iTunes by sheer coincidence, so it became the title of this post....
