Our dog-walk destinations are sheer joy. This is 4.5 miles from home–it’s part of the national forest, and the path takes us along a stream that channels snow melt from the mountains. The light and landscape remind me of California plein air paintings.
I’m told this wee beastie is an aphid.
More flowers and small animals of the unscary variety.
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Lovely photographs of nature so well captured.
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Thank you so much, Soo Peng. It’s a beautiful refuge.
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Oh, it does look like a painting – the layers and colors are so beautiful! Great macros – the light through the legume pods is fine and in that last photo with the ladybug, the dried flower looks like a big spider. Lady needs to move over to the pea pod and munch the aphids!
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Those pods were lit like tiny lanterns by the late morning sun, and I remembered your comment about how you enjoyed the flower macros. So that one was for you, Eliza! If only I could capture the smell of sage and the sound of the birds. Even though it’s just 4 miles from the house, I hear birds up there that don’t come down the hill. Like a mini-vacation for us, and a super-vacation for the dogs.
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