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

[gnwatts]

In Dominguez Canyon

 

[gnwatts]

In a stream below our house.

 

[tennistime99]

The toe of a glacier touching the water on a remote Artic Coast.

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Just Kidding. [emoji14] Actually some interesting ice crystals I noticed in a stream on a walk around the farm this weekend.

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Super close up view.

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A weekend warmup was literally causing the crystals to melt as I was looking at them.

I think that's hoarfrost when the ice crystalizes like that. Cool stuff.

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[Perry]

Enjoying the warm sun.

 

[Rockskipper]

Taken in my yard here in W. Colorado:

 

[tennistime99]

Don't see many of these where I live... Caught it at lunch time.

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[Yvonne]

my foot next to a dinosaur footprint, Subway hike

 

[Ugly]

Fluffy Goat Wool. The goats were all wonderful puffy marshmallowy like on the shelves and cliffs.
I'll need a lot more to knit some socks.

 

[tennistime99]

Should I be concerned that a giant apparently picked up my truck and moved it while I was hiking?

Anyone have a fingerprint dusting kit I can borrow?

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[Ugly]

@Nick the update to loading photos is a little slicker. Noice!

Anyhow, here are a few details from the desert. Maybe if I stay home this weekend I will edit some photos.

 

[gnwatts]

In Grand Gulch.

 

[wsp_scott]

Not staged, I looked down and saw a single leaf with colors that sort of matched the wet rock underneath

 

[tennistime99]

Found this fungus growing while out foraging for Turkey Tail, it reminds me of a Japanese silk screen of a tree.

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[tennistime99]

Mushrooms clinging to life on a tiny branch

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[tennistime99]

Hoarfrost I first thought was some kind of fungus. It almost looked like cotton on closer inspection, but when I touched it it melted instantly. Really odd as I looked around there were many formations but they were only on one type of downed tree and broken branches of the same type of tree.

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[Michael]

Veined rock

 

[OwenM]

Ice on a rock.

 

[Michael]

Wood or stone?

 

[gnwatts]

A friend in Dominguez Canyon.

 

[Rockskipper]

Wood or stone?

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Looks like wonderstone, a welded-vitric tuff (vitric means glassy) of rhyolitic composition. Circulating ground water produces the colorful banding. The maroon and yellow-brown colors are due to the presence of iron oxides. Not petrified wood. Rhyolite is magma with high silicate composition (75% typically) and is what causes continental volcanoes to explode (basalt is non-explosive and indicative of oceanic magma). Probably way more than you wanted to know.