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Archive for the ‘Nature’


Thunder Hole in action

It’s been ages since I uploaded an “Attention Deficit Theater” video, so this is long overdue:

This is a clip from Thunder Hole, in Acadia National Park in Maine. Thunder Hole is a pretty amazing place — it’s a spot where years of wave action have eroded a cavern in the cliff [...]

Lookin’ up!

A quick shot from the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Saxifrage

Another vote in favor of serendipity:

At one point in our driving tour of the Canadian Maritimes, we were driving through a little Newfoundland town called Cow Head. Since we were moving slowly, checking out the scenery, it was pretty easy to stop for a bit to check out the local church’s garden. This [...]

Autumn’s palette

I saw this while we were walking through the Santa Fe Plaza a few days back:

I just love how the golds and yellows of autumn leave look when they’re back-lit…

Mirrored

Seen in the Thuya Garden on Mt. Desert Island in Maine…

Tumbling

Another shot from the wonderful Dickson Falls in New Brunswick, Canada:

Backlit

This past weekend we had the opportunity to scoot back down to New Mexico to visit relatives. More pictures will be coming from this trip (been fiddling away in Aperture), but here’s the first…

A bit prickly

A different perspective on a previous subject…

Koi dreams

An image from the Denver Zoo:

You know, you never can tell what will strike people’s fancy. I thought this was an interesting shot, reflected clouds above Koi carp. But of all the images I’ve uploaded to Flickr, this has the biggest discrepancy between the number of views and the number of comments (currently [...]

Barren

Newfoundland has an interesting geological history. At the end of the ice ages, so much ice melted off the top of the place that the whole island rebounded (over time) by several hundred feet. As a result, Newfoundland is ringed by flat plains — that used to be seabed. At least on the west coast, [...]