Colorado, July 2004
first class, yeah baby!
Colorado Springs
White Thistle, Cirsium
Wild Onion, Allium


mushroom
Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium
Scarlet Gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata

tarp?!



Fleabane, Erigeron
Cinquefoil, Potentilla


cushion plant

cushion plant



Purple Fringe, Phacelia sericea
Gothic Mountain




Emerald Lake
Blue Columbine, Aquilegia coerulea
White Geranium, Geranium richardsonii
Bluebells, Mertensia


The Hindenburg

bat, Myotis?

Mariposa Lily, Calochortus gunnisonii
on the way up to Virginia Basin
Elephant Head, Pedicularis groenlandica

Bog Orchid

Pika, Ochotona princeps (aka furry little
bastards/saboteurs of Natalie's project)
Blue Flax, Linum lewisii
Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja

Gothic Mountain
Bluebells, Mertensia
Sky Pilot, Polemonium viscosum

Virginia Basin

Pika hay pile


Fitweed, Corydalis caseana


Lupine, Lupinus
& blister beetle (family Meloidae)
Larkspur, Delphinium
Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja

bee-collecting
Yellow-bellied Marmot, Marmota flaviventris


Scarlet Gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata
Fleabane, Erigeron

big ant




Emerald Lake
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus


bee-pinning

bee inspection

Chipmunk, Tamias

Gentian

into the bog







Bishop's Cap, Mitella
Monkshood, Aconitum columbianum
Coralroot Orchid, Corallorhiza

Bog Orchid


liverwort

Red Columbine, Aquilegia elegantula


moth
burying beetles


Gothic Mountain

Gothic townsite

paedomorphic Tiger Salamander,
Ambystoma tigrinum
metamorphic Tiger Salamander,
Ambystoma tigrinum

hail

Crested Butte
Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus

Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium











alien vortex













The Great Sand Dunes

Ten-lined June Beetle,
Polyphylla decimlineata

looking over the top

at the top










pollen-collecting bee on Penstemon


Bistort, Bistorta bistortoides



climbing Mount Owen



Fleabane, Erigeron



on top of Mount Owen...
...with a little friend
Golden-mantled Squirrel, Spermophilus lateralis

lichens
Alpine Poppy, Papaver kluanense
Blue Columbine, Aquilegia coerulea



Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja


female hummingbird

Nicole's first smore


Frenchy's Cafe

trout

Penstemon
hunting for seedlings at treeline


counting growth rings

Fleabane, Erigeron

Euchre
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
Rufous Hummingbird,
Selasphorus rufus
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
Mule Deer doe and fawn, Odocoileus hemionus
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus

Ore House




East River


JT's lab
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
Larkspur, Delphinium & bee
Cinquefoil, Potentilla & bee
Monkshood, Aconitum columbianum & bee
Dragonhead, Dracocephalum parviflorum & bee
bee robbing Larkspur, Delphinium

full moon

Gothic Mountain at night
female hummingbird
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
juvenile male Rufous Hummingbird,
Selasphorus rufus
young sparrow
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus


Yellow-bellied Marmot, Marmota flaviventris
male Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Selasphorus platycercus
female hummingbird

last morning in Gothic





my what strange yoghurts they have here, upside down it seems...
Denver airport



cancelled flights again, but oh the luxury of a flush
toilet and a proper bed!

and don't we just love those 4am wakeup calls, sigh...

Denver
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