Christmas In Groovey Colors

Timpanogos Temple

Bountiful Temple

loopy

For some reason, this root or vine grew though the spiral chamber of this snail shell. The shell has broken away, revealing the neat loopy combo.

Grove Creek Wildlife

I was thrilled to spot this hummingbird and nest. I believe that this is a Rufous Hummingbird, but I am no expert on hummingbirds. Although, I gather this is the female.


Here's a close up of her. A real treat to capture this little scene.



Not to be outdone, my wife spotted this BEAST. This is the Banded Alder Borer, of course. A huge specimen.



This itsy bitsy fellow is a silverfish. They seem to love to swarm over the rocks up in the mountains.

le petit suisse

My brother took this photo in Switzerland. Crazy looking! Best guess: Sand-Goldwespe

fly

Fireworkds

makes a nice wallpaper

coon

JibJab bloopers show real actors

My cousin recently tried out "starring you" in Jib Jab's "FoundingFathers Rap." It was fun to see his face added in, but even more intriguing were the bloopers. Apparently, the animation consists of separate independent and layers which and can get out of sync.


See here, the cutout head has lagged stage left, revealing the hard-core rapper behind the scenes. There's at least 5 actors involved that I've pasted in below.

ants

scorpion, northern utah

American Dog Tick - Dermacentor variabilis

From Moscow, Idaho

Asian Shore Crab

Apparently this is an invasive species.

Lake

Southern Utah Wildlife

Turkey Vulture


Smith's Black Headed Snake.


Giant Hairy Desert Scorpion.


Fiery Searcher - Calosoma scrutator

Common Sagebrush Lizard


Western Bluebird


Variable Colored Sand Snake.

Y Mountain

Dasani with Poo Colored Contamination

My boss had the great misfortune of taking a swig out of this bottle of Dasani. Ew, Gross. He hasn't got sick yet, but then again, I haven't showed him these pics.

Here are some of the heavy ones sunk to the bottom.


Here's a birds eye view.


Some of them are more floaty and others look like they grew on the sides.

Timp (again)

This is a composite of about 8 photos, the original is HUGE. My new camera does that.

Timp and the Moon

This is a 60 second moonlit shot taken at about 8:30 pm (sunset was at 5:42). Apparently, the moon last night was the brightest it will be all year. There area also few stars that made it into the exposure.

Weevil

One nice thing about my new camera, is that the flash works well with the macro mode.

Mountain Top

Moon at Dusk

Inversion after Dark

Timpe at Sunset 2