Mid-Summer Turtle

Sunning turtle along the Great River Trail in western Wisconsin.

Date: July 5, 2009

Bells and Bee

At Carly State Park in Southeastern Minnesota.

Date: May 2, 2010

It's Fall

Fall flowers and a bug. Sounds like fall to me. Taken along the Cannon Valley Trail in southeastern Minnesota.
Date: 9/21/2008

Surprised by the Pictures

Take a close look at the upper lily flower and you will see a dragon fly sitting there. No, I didn't see that when I took the picture. That's one of the joys of photography- discovering how things turn out better than you thought. There's more to each picture than meets the eye. From the Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester, MN.
Date: August 3, 2009

Running Deer

One has to be quick with the shutter some times to catch a deer. This was along the Root River Trail in southeastern Minnesota.
Date: July 19, 2009

Lazy Bee

I know it's hard to tell with a still picture, but this bee was moving very slow. It was a chilly morning on the Great River Trail in western Wisconsin and he was just crawling along the flowers but still gathering pollen.
Date: August 30, 2009

Prairie Life

Prairie close-up along the Shooting Star Trail in southern Minnesota.
Date: July 26, 2009

Slow Motion

No, these aren't in the wild but in a tank at the Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester, MN. But they were so photogenic and just sat there looking at me.
Date: August 3, 2009

Up Close

Grasshopper and flower along the Cannon Valley Trail in eastern Minnesota.
Date: 9/28/08

Bee and Flower

There is always life along a waterway like the Pine Creek Trail.
Date: August 3, 2008

Bee and Butterfly

Purple Coneflower and two animals sharing its pollen. This may be one of my favorite pictures from the 60 mile bike hike along Pine Creek in northern Pennsylvania.
Date: August 3, 2008

Don't Tread Near This Guy

A rattlesnake in a glassed in cage at the Quarry Hill Nature center in Rochester, MN. He looks sleepy, but I wouldn't trust him.
Date: May 26, 2008

Making Honey

Honey bees in a unique "indoor" hive at the Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester, MN.
Date: May 26, 2008

Prairie Dogs

Taken in Arizona, this was scanned from a photo. At first I thought the lines from a fence surrounding the prairie dogs took away from the picture. Now, they add a uniqueness to it that actually made me wonder who was truly fenced in.
Date: April, 1995

Ducks Before the Freeze

Chaska, MN
11/23/04

Dolphins Jumping

Back To Florida for this one. Dolphins playing in the wake of our tour boat.
Date: 1/3/05

A Dog- or a Lion?

Today I begin a regular series of pictures from Spain, from a trip we took in 2002. From Seville, I couldn't resist taking a picture of this wonderful looking dog. Or is it a small lion?
Date: 4/2/2002

Cosmo and Bug

Let's not forget summer yet. Bugs and flowers make such great subjects.
Date: 8/12/2003

A (Really) Way Back Machine

A mastodon skeleton- or at least the tusks of one- in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This is one of the most important such digs with more skeletons than can be counted at this point. Don't meet one in a dark alley.

Date: 7/27/07

Watch Out for the Turkeys

Custer State Park, in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Date: 7/27/07