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The Lumix Years - 2022 |
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Colorado's state flower, the columbine, has a scent that rivals the flower's visual beauty. |
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An elk cow gives her hours-old spotted calf, still unsteady on his legs, a first bath. |
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Wild plum blossoms, sometimes shrugging away snow, are a certain harbinger of spring. |
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This is the only preying mantis I've ever seen in Estes Park, Colorado. I was just in time for lunch. |
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Paintbrush "flowers" are mostly brightly colored leaves that hide the actual flowers. |
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When you spend as much time in the woods as I do, you find that even the trees begin to have faces. |
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Mountain geranium blossoms, which vary from white to lavender, are a common sight even into autumn. |
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On Trail Ridge Road in Colorado, you're enough higher than a rainbow that it curves in at the bottom. |
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Most flowering plants have both stamens, male parts, and stigmas, the female part where the seed forms. |
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An afternoon storm in the Colorado Rockies clears in time for moonrise. |
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The snow-covered summit of Mount Graham near Safford, Arizona, is hidden in dark storm clouds |
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Photographers are observers, not creators, and I envy the ease with which nature creates beautiful art. |
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Glacier lilies grow so fast in the spring that they can melt out a space under the snow in which to bloom. |
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Blue columbines and yellow arnica are common companions to the groves of aspen in the Rockies. |
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Most of time I understand what's happening in the sky above me. Not always. |
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