We have Northern flickers in our yard and everything about them is loud, even their feathers. Here's a flicker feather…
Here's a view of a chive blossom up close in my garden. We have a bumper crop this year! Macro…
Last week we visited Glass Buttes to collect obsidian and many wildflowers were in full bloom. Here is a clover…
This pretty plant is the first to bloom in my garden in the spring. The tiny flower of cypress spurge…
Sunshine's Macro Monday (SMM) Monochrome Monday
We got some much needed snow in the last few days of our mild winter. This close-up of spruce cones…
Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis This small groundcover plant is actually a type of dogwood. These striking plants range in height from…
I saw this bumblebee on paintbrush at Yellowstone National Park in the late spring. Slender paintbrush was common near the…
A photograph of spruce cones up close that I took in my Bend, Oregon yard. Sunshine's Macro Monday (SMM)
Sagebrush mariposa lily Calochortus macrocarpus Sunshine's Macro Monday (SMM)
Western columbine Aquilegia formosa Sunshine's Macro Monday (SMM)
Glover's Silkmoth Hyalophora columbia gloveri I saw this marvelous moth near Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. What a…
These coneflowers' colors are fading as summer turns to fall. Their form is still beautiful and I look forward to…
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.Srikumar Rao Sunshine's Macro Monday