Mt. Nebo Insects

Mormon Cricket

Ladybugs

Rocks/Geology

I found this unusually sphere-shaped stone on a hike. It's about the size of a large gumball.

What really got me curious, is that a few miles away, I found a second one (the size of large grape) with very similar traits.


The outer shells are both very rough, like a skateboard top. The cut sides are very smooth and dark.


The similarities indicate more of a type of formation, and not just a fluke. Anybody have any clue?

Golden Eagle?

It was as big as a turkey vulture, but I am really sure it is not a turkey vulture. Not the best photos, but I think it's a gold eagle or an immature bald eagle.

Arches Un-Wound

This is not the best composite arch, but the tourists show what's going on. The camera is held like a key, and turned 180 while repeated shots are taken (Base A, overhead, Base B). The trick is that the screen is out of sight the whole time, so you have to guesstimate the coverage of each shot.

This is one of the Double Arches. It turned out well in part because I adjusted the exposure en-route so that the overhead shots were not silhouetted.

This is Delicate Arch. I think it's cool how the sen is shading one end, and lighting the opposite.


This is actually about what landscape arch looks like from the trail. Long and skinny. But I wanted to make a composite of it anyway.

Here's the same trick on a tree, although the branches don't come back down to the ground. I am laying on the ground with my head toward the trunk. I am closer to the tree than it looks, because the image has to deal with rapidly changing scale.

Hummingbird

Chipmunk

Scorpion

Bullfrog; Green Frog

Milipede

Bridge

Elevator

Predaceous Diving Beetle (maybe)

I caught this at night by a bright light. Even though it was far from water, I figured it as a diving beetle. But when I plopped in in some water, it doggy paddled in a panic. Looking online, I still think it's a diving beetle, but who knows. It was huge, whatever it was.

Cooper's Hawk (I think)

Spider (with extra mutant eye?)

Apparently, it's a Strotarchus that is missing an eye. Poor little guy.

"Yes! Paste" on Paper

Silver Fish

Carpet Beetle?

Jumping Spider

Deer in our backyard

Here is a mule deer doe and her yearling. They were in our yard all day, which was pretty cool.


This one can put its foot in its mouth. On purpose.


And here's one hanging out.

They Eyes Have it

This is 1/2 of the latest Disney princess from tangled, and 1/2 of the latest hollywood alien. They both have big eyes.