Summer is Over
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These maple trees grow in a beautiful canyon. I spent hours walking among them looking for a composition that would express the feeling of yellow leaves hanging in the air like fireflies.
Time to Rest
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A colorful mat of fallen leaves covers the ground below a maple tree at the end of autumn.
Frosted Corn Lilies
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I first found frost-covered lilies a couple of years before making this image, and loved the way the ice accentuated their graceful lines, but could not find a good composition. I return to the same patch a few more times until about two years later, I found what I was looking for.
Colorful Recovery
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This area was burned in a wildfire a few years prior to making this photograph. Charred remains of scrub oaks still remain as new foliage sprouts at their bases. Life recovers.
Colors of Winter
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Willow and rabbitbrush add a splash of color to dormant cottonwoods trees.
Autumn Coat
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Maple trees begin to turn as autumn arrives.
Leaves and Grass
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Fallen aspen leaves among wind-sculpted grasses.
Rooster Tails
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Colorful grasses in an alpine meadow.
Glimmer
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Last rays of light filtering through desert brush.
Emergence
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Young cottonwoods grow among a willow thicket along a desert river.
Forest Camo
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Thick grove of alder trees covered in moss and lichen.
Silent Flames
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A quiet winter moment with dormant cottonwood, willow, and tamarisk trees.
The Little Things
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Sunlight filtering through a patch of grama grass.
Silent Fireworks
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Early morning light filters through rice grass.
Morning Bliss
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Early morning light filters through dew-covered grama grasses.
In Memoriam
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The skeleton of an old cedar that died in a wildfire, against a backdrop of young maples and oaks starting to fill the scorched earth.
Autumn Shroud
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Oaks reclaiming their former glory several years after a wildfire.
Maplemorphosis
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Yet-to-turn aspen trees mixed with maples in vibrant autumn display.
Autumn Aura
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Late fall among the willows and aspens.
Early Signs
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Small buds on cottonwood trees signal the arrival of spring.
Let It Storm
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Aspens and willows welcome an early snow shower. Soon, a thick white blanket will erase most color until the following spring.
Caption inspired by this passage by Hermann Hesse:
"Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!"
Lost Souls
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Scrub oaks dusted with early spring snow.
Remembrance
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A snowberry bush in bright autumn color at the feet of the fallen remains of an old pinyon pine that died in a wildfire.
Untangled Bloom
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Sand Verbena in bloom, growing around the remnants of a dead creosote bush.
Creekside Tapestry
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Desert plants in a flood basin along a small creek, in winter colors.
Intricacy
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Desert brush showing its true colors in winter time when plants are dormant and not producing chlorophyll.
Winter is Over
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Cottonwoods and willows reawakening in early spring.
Ash and Lichen Tapestry
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Ash tree in autumn color against a sandstone wall textured with various lichens.
Oaks Rejuvenated
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The charred remains of oaks burned in a wildfire, remain standing as new growth sprouts at their bases.
Colorful Rest
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The skeleton of a ponderosa pine, surrounded by new growth of scrub oak several years after a wildfire.
Piliferous Poppy
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Close look at a rare bear poppy.
Poppy Dream
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Bear poppy abstract.
Unfurling
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A close look at a rare Bear Poppy plant.
Shadow Dancer
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The skeleton of a small juniper tree catching the last sunray’s of the day.
Ghost
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An old spruce tree that fell victim to bark beetle infestation, caused by climate change.
Winter Candle
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Small dormant cottonwood still bearing some dry remnants of last year's leaves, catching the last of the sunlight against a dark canyon wall.
Stained Glass
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Fallen autumn leaves trapped under a layer of ice.
Rare Gift
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This was a large shallow pool the day before. Overnight, temperatures hovered around freezing, and in the morning I found these beautiful fallen maple and oak leaves captured in a layer of paper-thin ice. The ice melted within a couple of hours as the sun lit the canyon bottom.
Winter Arrives
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Last of the autumn foliage still clings to young aspens as they prepare for the big sleep.
Reclamation
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Buckwheat plants repopulating an area after a fire.
Inner Space
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Winter sun illuminates a patch of desert trumpet plants.
Christmas Creosote
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Small creosote bush covered in seed pods, looks festive right around the Christmas holiday.
Illuminated Tips
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Sagebrush catching the last light of the day.
The Graceful Dead
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Last of the maple foliage clinging on before the next big storm strips the tree bare.
Winter Breath
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Cholla growing among creosote bushes glows in the light of a late winter afternoon.
Farewell to a Season
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Scrub oak leaves in autumn colors.
Any Moment Now
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Last of the autumn leaves clings to scrub oaks.
Scrub Oak Diorama
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A rainbow of autumn colors rendered in pastels in a small grove of scrub oaks.
Winter Calm
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A cholla cactus glowing in the afternoon light of a quiet winter day.
Goodnight Stretch
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Cholla cactus glowing in early evening light.
Almost Bedtime
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Cholla and rabbitbrush glowing in the last light of an early spring evening.
Devils in the Details
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A thriving patch of high-desert plants.
Ponderosa in Blue
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Ponderosa pines covered in hoar frost.
Iridescent Chaos
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“Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world, I feel colored by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.” ~Paul Cezanne
Personality Disorder
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Endangered Bouquet
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The Struggle Begins
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End of our Errors
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Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters through a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines.
This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires.
Forest Elegy
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Goldenrods and buckwheats rise out of the ashes of a burned ponderosa pine forest.
Mourning Light
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Amaranth bushes glowing as faint light filters though a forest of recently burned ponderosa pines.
This image is part of my ongoing project to visit areas affected by wildfires.
Reclamation
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Vibrant new foliage of gambel oaks rises from among charred skeletons after the previous summer’s fire.
Among the Skeletons
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Gambel oaks in autumn color reclaim a mountainside covered in ponderosa pines that had burned in a wildfire.
Revival
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Gambel oaks in vibrant autumn color reclaim a hillside burned in a summer wildfire.
Remnants
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Fallen pinyon pine cones among dead sagebrush.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Vincent's Tree
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Vegetative States
It is easy, sometimes, to ignore the amazing variety of moods, colors, and intricate arrangements created by plants - trees and bushes and shrubs and grasses. They morph with the weather and the seasons and the hours of the day and always prove worthy companions in good and bad times.
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