Album Up Close and Personal -- Photos Focused on the Details

[kwc]

One last maple leaf hanging on …

 

[Ugly]

 

[Ugly]

a little, lonely marble I found.

 

[b.stark]

Always good stuff to see on sandbars in the Missouri River

 

[Titans]

We had several close cacti encounters in the Mojave desert…. lots of prickly stuff, have to watch where you place the feet.

Think this is a baby Cottontop cactus




Rick had a cholla encounter.…. I had to cut the main piece away first, then pull each individual spine out. I had long pants on, but also had a prickly pear spine just below the knee when we were scrambling in the boulders. We both had a spine in a finger.

 

[Jackson]

We had several close cacti encounters in the Mojave desert…. lots of prickly stuff, have to watch where you place the feet.

Think this is a baby Cottontop cactus
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Rick had a cholla encounter.…. I had to cut the main piece away first, then pull each individual spine out. I had long pants on, but also had a prickly pear spine just below the knee when we were scrambling in the boulders. We both had a spine in a finger.

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What a cool cactus! Never seen one of those before. Also ouch!

 

[TractorDoc]

Cones on a Dawn Redwood Tree after a recent ice storm

 

[TractorDoc]

Some icicles from the same storm. They started to drip as the morning sun warmed them up.



Not that you can really see it from the picture, but the cool thing is the water droplets have an inverted image of the background.

 

[Yvonne]

When the weather is really gloomy in the rainforest, I only focus on small details on my walks.
There is a lot to see and explore. And Iʻm sort of obsessed with taking pictures of mosses and ferns

curled up fern fronds

Young curled up Hapuʻu fern: the fluffy yellow-brown stuff is called Pulu and was used as stuffing in bedding. There was even a Pulu factory in the park, and the ruins are still there in the backcountry

raindrops on ferns

moss close-up

 

[Jackson]

When the weather is really gloomy in the rainforest, I only focus on small details on my walks.
There is a lot to see and explore. And Iʻm sort of obsessed with taking pictures of mosses and ferns

curled up fern fronds

Young curled up Hapuʻu fern: the fluffy yellow-brown stuff is called Pulu and was used as stuffing in bedding. There was even a Pulu factory in the park, and the ruins are still there in the backcountry

raindrops on ferns

moss close-up

Amazing details! Love seeing these.

 

[Yvonne]

Amazing details! Love seeing these.

Thanks
The good thing is there is always something to see here in the rainforest