Recipe for a successful trail hike: ✅ one active pup ✅ a beautiful trail with wildflowers ✅ nice weather 🚫 leash ✅ Charlie chasing butterflies and exploring but always staying close!
Tag Archives: Nature photography
After the storm
Hail, rain, flash floods were followed by a beautiful sky. Tomorrow will be better.
Fawn on its own
Where is your mother? You’re too young to be alone! Stay safe Sweet Baby.
Colorado wildflowers
Each day brings delight as I travel the forest enjoying beauty!
Charlie hikes by the Creek
Charlie, just turning 4 months old is so full of energy and curiosity that he is a source of constant amusement. A few days ago we did fabulous trail hike with my friend and her 2 Newfoundlands. They are excellent dogs with years of training on the trail, how to find the nearby creek forContinue reading “Charlie hikes by the Creek”
Pine pollen – everything you didn’t know about pine trees
We live in a forest of pine trees. Unlike flowering plants, pine trees don’t attract bees or butterflies for pollination. The wind does the job of transferring pollen from male cones to female cones or on other trees. The first two photos are male pine cones and the third one, what we think of asContinue reading “Pine pollen – everything you didn’t know about pine trees”
Alpenglow
Color paints the sky alpenglow saturating the evening view.
Morning Moon
Morning moon setting rests gently on mountain peak disappears from view.
Joy
One of my favorite things is to find shapes in clouds or nature. This beautiful cloud has a heart of blue sky within it. My entry for the word JOY in the photo contest run by dancer4theking.wordpress.com
Can You Smell the Rain? (Poetry)
Filtered rays of light stream through dark clouds Is a storm coming? Beyond it, blue sky dotted with white cotton candy clouds. The juxtaposition makes me wonder. Will heavy drops of rainfall from the sky? Will there be thunder? Lightening? Can you smell the rain?
Laura Roettiger Books 