Twisted pine, Big Cottonwood Canyon, #Utah, with the beautiful Alta Stock granodiorite in the background. #photography #tree #nature #rock

New Holland Honeyeaters are a delight to see in my yard. Though this is at a reservoir in the hills. #birding #birds #photography #nature

Busy marking reports today. So here’s a random photo from Balch Park area, #California #SierraNevada #mountains #nature #forest #photography

Grumpy rock. Wonder if he knows Groot? #rocks #California #geology #SierraNevada

Gum trees have such interesting #flowers, especially the caps that protect the flowers before they bloom. In this case the caps are remarkably hearty. #tree #photography #nature #gardens #Australia

The sun is setting on #Adelaide #Australia #moon #tree

A pretty classic structural geology outcrop in Kings Canyon NP. The fold is in formerly marine sediments that was metamorphosed as it was sank deeper into the crust as granitoid plutons of the Sierra Nevada rose towards the surface #California #geology #rocks #nature #faultsfolds #mountains

First snow in the Wasatch Mountains in early October this year. The aspens had yet to lose their leaves. #photography #landscape #Utah #mountains #nature #fallcolors

My grass has purple berries? #gardening

Hollyhocks come in an array of colors. #flowers #photography #gardens #bloomscrolling

Rainy day in Adelaide. I need some sunshine. Enjoy this photo from my recent field work in the Sierra Nevada. #photography #SierraNevada #mountains #sunrise #California

More macro play yesterday, a columbine in our garden. #photography #macro #flowers #gardening

A gum tree flowering in the park near my home. Not sure what kind. #tree #flowers #Adelaide #Australia #photography

Playing with the macro this afternoon. each of these #flowers are 1 cm or less across. #photography #garden

Making candied orange slices today from my last five blood oranges. They make awesome ice cream or yellow cake topping. #photography #food #oranges #cooking

Hey @geologytime.bsky.social here are some boron rich minerals…from Boron, CA, home to the largest open pit mine in California and supplier of approx. 1/3rd of the world’s boron. #California #geology #minerals #boron

Crimson Rosella on a River Red Gum. #photography #birding #birds #Australia #nature

A pincushion flower #photography #flowers #gardens

The Earth currently has two dominant convergent margins, the Alpine-Himalayan belt and the circum-Pacific subduction. This Cassini projection emphasises the latter, showing how it basically extends around the entire Earth with a few minor breaks. #maps #geology #tectonics #science #AdelaideUni

To everyone in the US, have a happy Thanksgiving from an expat in Oz. I’ll be thankful if you all return to sanity. Remember, we’re all in this life together and should work together, not against each other so solve problems big and small.

This Smilodon skeleton displayed at the Utah Museum of Natural History is from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. You can tell because of the dark color of the bones resulting from all those years buried in tar. #NaturalHistory #IceAge #LaBreaTarPits #Utah #California #fossil #photography

You lookin’ at me? Huh? #birding #photography #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia

There is something interesting about looking at the skeleton of a tree. #nature #photography #tree #lookup #Adelaide

Another flower from yesterday’s walk through the botanic gardens. #flower #gardens #photography #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

Poppies are beautiful flowers. #photography #flowers #bloom #poppies #purple

Pretty clouds yesterday evening, nothing spectacular, just pleasant. #clouds #photography

An interesting little flower I passed at the botanic gardens this morning. From top to bottom, they’re about 2 cm. #flower #photography #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

Saw one of these on pinterest an decided to carve one myself. Carved from American Cherry, finished with shellac. #woodworking #woodcarving #carving

Being the black sheep is a lot more interesting. #photography #sheep

It’s very rainy today, so I’ve spent the day in the workshop. At the moment, I’m just messing around with scraps. This piece was just play, but I have the rest of the cutoff and can make a much better version. Any thoughts what I should do with it? #woodwork #wood #butterfly

On my last evening when leaving the #TehachapiMountains, I couldn’t help but snap a photo of the iconic #California live oaks in the late evening. #photography #nature #trees #moon

If you zoom in, you’ll see spiral shaped stamens and corkscrew pistil. Very cool. #nature #photography #flowers #Florida

Just left my work to grab some lunch and came across this blue tongue lizard at the corner of the building. #reptile #urbannature #lizards

Here’s a painting I made years ago and the photo I took that I based it on. Oil on canvas. Maple and Aspen trees in Utah on Fuji Velvia. #photography #painting #Utah #nature #tree #Autumn #FallColor

Stoped in Botanic Park on the way home to watch the flying foxes for a few minutes. #nature #bats #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

While this looks a bit like lichen, it is actually copper mineralization at the margin of the Alta Stock near Lake Catherine in the Wasatch Range, Utah. #photography #geology #rocks #Utah #copper

My pomegranates are in bloom! #garden #fruittrees #photography #flowers

If you gave a 4-year old a bunch of crayons and the outline of a bird, I think you would get something like the Eastern Rosella. #birding #bird #photography #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

I think it is important as photographers to occasionally show that not all our shots are great. Here’s a candidate for #CrapBirdPhotos. It’s a mountain bluebird (I think), there were several, but they wouldn’t allow me within a kilometer of them. And when I tried…

Picked up an inch worm when pulling weeds and waiting for the bus. #insect #gardening

Sequoia trees are very wide, but I found them difficult to photograph in a way that conveys just how broad they are. Pictured is a ponderosa pine between two sequoias from the Parker Eight at Sequoia NP. #photography #forest #trees #nature #NationalPark

Here is another of a Rainbow Lorikeet this afternoon (arvo as the Aussies say). #birding #birds #photography #SouthAustralia #Australia #Agelaide #gardens

Australia has some amazing parrots. Say hello to this Rainbow Lorikeet as it peers out from its breakfast spot. Snapped this at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens on my way to work. #photography #birding #bird #parrots #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

Rocks are so cool. This is a granodiorite from the Sierra Nevada, remnants of an ancient magmatic arc, preserving evidence of subduction on the California coast ca. 100 million years ago. #photography #rocks #geology #California #SierraNevada

It is cold and rainy and grey today in Adelaide. I hope the Sun comes out and I can see a rainbow like this one from my recent trip to the Sierra Nevada. #photography #sunshine #rainbow #California #SierraNevada

The South Island Robin from New Zealand. They are really curious fellows and seem to have little fear of humans. #bird #birding #BirdOfTheDay #shadesogray #NewZealand #nature #photography

It’s so bright… someone turn off the Sun. #cat

Say hello to the Kea, the only alpine parrot species. They are native to New Zealand’s south island. FYI, if you ever get to see them, beware, they like to pull weather stripping off windshields. #bird #birding #photography #NewZealand #nature #parrot #alpine

Our trees have fruit in various stages of ripeness. The photos are only a third of the varies we have I love being able to walk out in the morning and forage for breakfast. #gardening #fruit

The Darran Mountains during a trip to New Zealand earlier this year. Took a tour from Southern Lakes Helicopters out of Te Anau on the south island. It was amazing! #photography #mountains #nature #NewZealand #glacier