A lone mountain goat saunters along a precipice.
Mushrooms & Landscapes - Glacier National Park - Part 1
Some images from a visit to Glacier National Park during a very wet September 2013.
Grand Teton, Yellowstone, & Glacer National Parks
A few images from three of our greatest National Parks.
From the Snake River overlook, site of Ansel Adams' iconic photo of the Grand Tetons. The trees have grown up a bit since Mr. Adams shot this view.
"The Tetons and the Snake River", Ansel Adams, 1942.
A view of the Grand Teton range from a bit further out to the east - Togwotee Pass.
And from up closer at Oxbow Bend near the top of Jackson Lake.
String Lake at sunset.
Oxbow Bend at 5:00 AM. Lots of stars . . .
Heading north from Jackson Hole into Yellowstone National Park:
The headwaters area at the southern end of Yellowstone National Park.
Rainbow at Kepler Cascades.
Old Faithful geyser.
And, continuing further north to Glacier National Park:
Along the shore of Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park.
Lichens.
Nymphalis antiopa, common name "Mourning Cloak".
More from the Tetons
A bull elk checks me out. 30 yards away out the right side of the frame - his harem of 20 females and their youngsters.
The eastern face of the Teton range from the Snake River overlook.
High country summer - Part IV
More from in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.
At the edge of Dream Like, with Hallet Peak as a backdrop.
A cascade at the brink - just below Lake of Glass, on the way to Timberline Falls. The Loch in the distance below.
Looking West towards the Never Summer Mountains, from above tree line on Twin Sisters.
Looking West from the flank of Twin Sisters.
A cascade edges the tailings of the old Eugenia Mine.
A Lustrous Copper, Lycaena cupreus, a denizen of the Alpine Zone.
Whipple's Penstemon, Penstemon whippleanus.
Elkweed or Green Gentian, Frasera speciosa.
Elkweed or Green Gentian, Frasera speciosa.
Cinquefoil, Potentilla sp.
Close-up with a Sticky Geranium, Geranium viscoissimum.
Looking down Tyndall Gorge from just above Tyndall Glacier at around 12,000 ft. The "glacier" is now reduced to a small dirty patch of snow by rising temperatures. In the distance, Pool of Jade, then Dream Lake, and a glimpse of Bear Lake Road below.
Long's Peak and Glacier Gorge in the distance, and a glimpse of Dream Lake below, from the Flattop Mountain Trail.
A pair of bull elk, up high above the Summer heat.
Bull elk catch some early morning sun.
The Continental Divide between Milner Pass and Mt. Ida.
Emerald Lake, with Hallet Peak and rocky spires rising above Tyndall Gorge.
Chaos Canyon below Lake Haiyaha.
Afternoon clouds fore-sage a thunderstorm as they gather above the helmet of Long's Peak.
Fallen tree.