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Fruiting Bodies

Mushrooms and moss enliven the edge of the 40 acre woods

The Heart of the World

John Muir often wrote poetically of the world’s wild gardens. This one is in a canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The little meadow is mostly overlooked by hikers intent on getting to what they believe are grander sights. If only they hiked more mindfully they wouldn’t miss out on the more intimate glories of the world. “As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.” - from John of the Mountain; The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Grand Staircase

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is full of spectacular geologic features. This one is the Cockscomb, which runs for miles alongside Cottonwood Creek. The red rock is one of many tooth-like formations that suggested the name. I admired the various tableaux created by the desert vegetation growing on the canvas of red rock. So pleasant to pass among these as I followed the creek bed.

Fall Brilliance

A Japanese maple in autumn color

Maples in Fall Color

Just two of over two dozen maples in our garden. They are bare now but what a sight they were in mid October

Ochre Painted Cliff

This cliff rises next to a waterfall, which gets all the attention, even though the cliff is full of interesting compositions. Banff National Park

Rock Abstract, Coyote Buttes South

Paria Canyon/Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

Rock Designs

Spider Web

Desert Abstract

Willis Creek Narrows

Desert Abstract

Rock Cliffs

Milford Sound, New Zealand

Rock Abstract, South Coyote Buttes

Paria Canyon/Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

Waterpocket Fold

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Antelope Canyon

Painted Hills, Oregon

Although they only cover 9 square miles, these hills are full of red, orange, and yellow colors left over from ancient lava flows. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon

Willis Creek Narrows

Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument

Sauk River, North Cascades

Snow Lake

Mount Rainier National Park

Yosemite Morning

Valley View, Yosemite National Park

Bombo, New South Wales

Grinell Point

Many Glacier Lake, Glacier National Park

Sanibel Sunrise

Sanibel Island, Florida

Chisos Mountain Sunset

Big Bend National Park

Mount Rainier from Sourdough Ridge

Glacier Style

Fox Glacier, Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand

Softest Night

Estero Bay from Point Ybel, Sanibel Island, Florida

Water and Ice

On a bright early spring day, floating pieces of the Hooker Glacier reflect the sky and surrounding hills.

Light Expressions

It’s a gentle morning, four hours before sunrise. The steel skeleton of Sanibel Light, which has kept guard here at Point Ybel since 1884, watches over the beach which slopes gently to the Gulf of Mexico. Up above, the first full moon of March—a “worm” moon—lights the fast-moving clouds

Linked In Gentle Rhythm

Windy Gulch Wilderness Study Area, Colorado

Glacier Fragment

Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. This piece of ice from the Hooker Glacier floated in the glacier's proglacial lake, among 75 other icebergs. The bright afternoon sun reflected in the ice while the clear blue sky lit the water's surface.