humming bird chicks

portions

banana tree elements

backyard bumble

progenitor

 an arachnid relocates its bundle of offspring

upper punchbowls

brett ziegler

evidence of man

red bull cup 2009, upper trestles

damien hobgood

noah

brad gerlach

Sequoia National Park

morro rock, elevation 6,725ft. morro spanish for roan-colored horse, or a horse that fed at the base rock

western tanager

Piranga ludouiciana

treetop light

leaf-sails

mineral valley

sequoia grove

Sequoideudro giganteum

black bear

Ursus americanus

ponderosa pine

cone fins

mountain quail

Oreortyx pictus

the last of the sun's rays for the day

ferns

Kings Canyon National Park

mule deer, Odocoiledus hemionus

zumalt medows

song sparrow

Melospiza melodia

waxing gibbous moon

riverside cobbles

shield-back katydid

Nedubla morsei

gray-bird grasshopper

Schistocerca nitens

north dome

elevation 8,717 ft.