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The Lumix Years - 2018
Colorado's San Juan Mountains are volcanic with lots of colorful rock. The white dots are domestic sheep.
The thick hair on pasque flowers protect the tender tissues from the spring wind and alpine sun.
Ragged clouds get caught on the 14,000-foot summit of Long's Peak in Colorado.
Stock chutes were once vital equipment for ranchers to get their cattle to distant markets.
Paintbrushes interbreed freely so they display the colors of the rainbow, including this translucent pink.
North America's native pig, the peccary or javelina, is a scrappy survivor of the Southwest desert.
Kinnikinnik blossoms are small and borne under the leaves so they're rarely seen except by bugs.
A solitary bison lives among his larder in the unspoiled Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park.
A purple aster brings vivid color to the forest floor.
This 150-foot column of sandstone in Fisher Towers in Utah looks a bit like a carved obelisk.
Anemones usually have a spherical, blonde-colored seed head but drought has given this one a crazy twist.
This hand-forged bolt has long outlasted the wood it was forged to hold together.
Wild donkeys eke out a living in the high mountain parks of Colorado, aided by generous motorists.
Drought has caused this aster to unfold incorrectly so that it looks like an old-fashioned lady's hat.
Evening falls on the Gore Range and the sleepy town of Heeney by Colorado's Green Mountain Reservoir.