Not Today
Rain retreats over Lake Superior, leaving a dry tree. The photo is a heavy crop of a picture of a storm by Will of this blog; I like the texture, and the change in focus from the storm to a solitary sapling.
Raging River
High water from heavy rain and spring runoff combined filled this dam spillway at Pattison State Park much more than normal, affording the amazing foam patterns and contrast.
Cold Pizza
This guy had a major haul on a cold morning. He mustn’t like pepperoni, he ate the crust before touching anything else.
Color Waves
Sunsets are almost always beautiful, but they are occasionally something really unusual. This view from Port Wing marina had wonderful high altitude clouds that stayed lit well after the sun was below the horizon.
KLR and Mountains
My old KLR-650 took some gnarly roads. This one near Georgetown is closed most of the year to snow which never fully melts. Getting down involves careful balancing on the top of several cliffs.
Green Vision
These green butterflies are the tailed green jay (graphium agamemnon), native to parts of south Asia and the pacific islands. I had the opportunity to see them at a butterfly exhibit at Como Park Zoo in St. Paul MN.
Still Life
I needed a break from traveling so I found the most squiggly road on the map and drove up it. Somewhere in norther New Mexico At the end was nothing but a gate to a field but the view coming back down was worth the detour. I didn’t notice the deer until editing.
Spring Flowers
Mountainsides covered in flowers are a spectacular sight, and these mountains were completely covered in Indian Paintbrush and Bluebells. This was a cloudy day at the Johnston Ridge Observatory near Mt Saint Helens, so the trees and flowers were most of the visible sights.
Water Under the Bridge
A fast thunderstorm forced me under a bridge, watching the rain try to fill up Toll Gate Creek. It gave up before it got very far.
Shattered Shoreline
Occasionally Lake Superior is calm enough on cold nights to freeze over a large area of the with thin ice. Once a breeze picks up it pushes the ice onto the shore making what look like piles of broken panes of glass.