We have Northern flickers in our yard and everything about them is loud, even their feathers. Here’s a flicker feather up close.
Flicker feather up close: SMM
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Chive Blossom up close: Macro Monday
Here’s a view of a chive blossom up close in my garden. We have a bumper crop this year!
Macro Monday
Clover up close at Glass Buttes: SMM
Last week we visited Glass Buttes to collect obsidian and many wildflowers were in full bloom. Here is a clover up close.
Cypress spurge up close: SMM
This pretty plant is the first to bloom in my garden in the spring. The tiny flower of cypress spurge is framed by bright yellow bracts.
Rose Quartz up close: SMM
Golden sword yucca: SMM & Monochrome Monday
Prickly pear in the snow: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Spruce Cones in Snow: SMM
We got some much needed snow in the last few days of our mild winter. This close-up of spruce cones in snow was taken in my yard in Bend, Oregon.
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Mussel Beach near Pacific City: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Brown-eyed wolf lichen up close: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Paper birch up close: SMM
Bunchberry in full bloom: SMM
This small groundcover plant is actually a type of dogwood. These striking plants range in height from eight inches, as in the bunchberry, to the 60-foot tall Pacific dogwood tree. Beautiful in any size!
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Bumblebee on paintbrush: SMM
I saw this bumblebee on paintbrush at Yellowstone National Park in the late spring.
Slender paintbrush was common near the thermal features.
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Spruce cones up close: SMM
A photograph of spruce cones up close that I took in my Bend, Oregon yard.
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
A moment with a Mariposa: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
A Fiery Western Columbine: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
A marvelous moth at rest: SMM
I saw this marvelous moth near Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. What a beauty! 😀
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
A sweet little onion in bloom: SMM
Sunshine’s Macro Monday (SMM)
Purple coneflower up close: SMM
These coneflowers’ colors are fading as summer turns to fall. Their form is still beautiful and I look forward to seeing them bloom next spring.
