No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see -Taoist Proverb This saying is appropriate in these times. A calm mind provides us with clarity & introspection. Anger will not move us forward #photobyraykenny #WaterWednesday #nature #SierraNevada #hiking

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” - John Muir #ColoraDay #RedWed #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #nature #packrafting #SierraNevada #backpacking #Landscapephotography #wilderness

Being a geologist, I love photos of cross beds & high angle bedding planes. Here is the Jurassic/Triassic Navajo Sandstone from the Waterpocket Fold, Utah. The high angle & length of the beds tells me this was once a desert with dunes similar to the Sahara. #RockinTuesday #geology #sandstone #fold

A fun hike in CO is the Collegiate Peak Loop. It combines the western & eastern alts of the #ColoradoTrail & is ~160 miles. Stay at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs & leave a resupply bucket there. If you ave 15 mi/day, it then turns into a 6-day trip & a 5-day trip. #MountainMonday #backpacking #nature

Happy #BlueSkyMonday and #SleepySep #moon! Photo taken near Tropic, Utah.

The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is more than just Coyote Buttes and Paria Canyon. This rarely visited butte on top of Vermilion Cliffs glows in the morning light with streaks of creamy white and an orange marmalade top. #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #Stunday #hiking #wilderness #offtrail

Happy #Stunday and #ShotsInSlots day! I can be redundant at times, with all my posts of places off trail in the Grand Canyon. Yes, here is another one. I’ll just say it is not too far from Crazy Jug Point. #NationalParks #GrandCanyon #slotcanyons #parkchat #nature #landscapephotography #backpacking

To me, #home is more than 4 walls. It is where my heart feels joy, a place I share with people I love, and a journey of wisdom for my soul. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #photography #hiking #natue #ColoraDay #GreenSat #SleepySep #pillow #NationalParks #Canyonlands

Happy Friday everyone! I hope the day treats you kindly and remember: “Peace isn’t about avoiding the storm - it’s dancing in it with grace” - unknown #ForestFriday #nature #reflection #SensoryArt #Weather #scape #landscape #PhotographersofBluesky #photobyraykenny

Hiking along the Esplanade Sandstone in western Grand Canyon is sublime. #scape #landscape #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #landscapephotography #nature #backpacking #photobyraykenny #hiking

“Scarlet bells bow down With tears about to drip off The desert wakes up” #ColoraDay #RedWed #SensoryArt #weather #bloomscrolling #Haiku #poetry #wildflowers #nature #macro #photography

Enjoying some flat water on the Colorado River on a Grand Canyon packrafting trip. #WeekKforKaraoke: “Take me to the River” - Talking Heads #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #ColoraDay #RedWed #packrafting #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

Beehive Rock in Horseshoe Canyon Wilderness Study Area. The butte is mostly made of Jurassic-Triassic Wingate Sandstone topped by the whiter Jurassic Navajo Sandstone. #RockinTuesday #SaveOurPublicLands #geology #nature #landscape #photography #photobyraykenny

A beautiful rainbow during this morning’s hike up Perins Peak in Durango, CO. I love living here. #Nature #Hiking #photography #rainbows

Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Here is a photo of an unnamed lake along the Kuna Crest in Yosemite National Park. #MountainMonday #NationalParks #backpacking #Parkchat #wildplaces

Happy #BlueSkyMonday & #MinimalMonday! This is a small desert milkweed (Asclepias erosa) growing in Canyonlands National Park. Fun fact: eating milkweed protect Monarch butterflies because the toxins from the milkweed make the butterfly unpalatable to its predators. #nature #NationalParks #Parkchat

Happy #RockinTuesday! Being a geologist who loves the Grand Canyon, I can never share enough photos of it. Here is #photobyraykenny in a remote canyon of the Grand Canyon. I love how the layers of water and deposits in the drainage contrast with the colors and layers of the Vishnu Schist.

Here’s an interesting photo for #SleepySep #bed. You can see 2 bed frames in this photo. In a remote area of the Grand Canyon, this old cowboy camp was used from the early 1900s to ~1960. Please admire but don’t disturb these sites if you find one of them. #history #GrandCanyon #backpacking

Happy #BlueSkyMonday and the beginning of September! Here is one of our beautiful blue lakes in southwestern Colorado #MountainMonday #nature #lakes #photography #SanJuanMountains #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands

If you would like to know more about Southeastern Utah Butterflies, here's a catalog of the area's species. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1b9OA... Have at it free, or contribute a donation for any amount? gofund.me/eba90270 #butterflies

Beautiful narrows in Capitol Reef National Park #Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #NationalParks #Parkchat #ShotsInSlots #canyons #nature #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny

A #haiku #poem for this beautiful #AbstractAug #Sky: “Ribbons flutter by Floating on a blue pallet Never touching earth”

The gnarled and curves of a Jeffrey Pine tree stump makes for an interesting photo. Photo taken in Ansel Adams Wilderness, CA #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #photography #hiking #backpacking #trees

Lighting and the time of day can change everything. Normally, this is a non-descriptive butte in Canyonlands National Park. But it is “FIRE” with the morning light. #Stunday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Canyonlands #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

As the summer winds down, I am getting the itch to be back in the desert. This photo from the Waterpocket Fold takes me there. #Stunday #GlenCanyon #nature #Utah #hiking #backpacking #ProtectOurPublicLands #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #WaterPocketFold

For #BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline

Gosh. Thanks for sharing this. It's a real pick-me/up. I can no longer hike and explore as much. Thankfully, before, I did manage to get a baseline catalog of Southeastern Utah's butterflies. Please share, to those interested. It's not published, and I would hate for it to vanish to history.

A beautiful Anise Swallowtail seen in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah. #InsectThursday #Butterflies #ColoraDay #YellowThu #photobyraykenny #thelittlethings

Happy Thursday! Here is a long-nosed leopard lizard to brighten your morning. Fun fact: Leopard Lizards are fierce predators and have been found choked to death attempting to consume prey that is too large for them to swallow. Canyonlands, 5/26/25. #herps #wildlife #nature #lizards #photobyraykenny

#AbstractAug #Faces #smArtist #brilliant Faces from a Barrier Canyon Style site in southeastern Utah. Estimated to be between 1500 and 4000 years old. #archaic #pictographs #BCS #Rockart

Here’s a beautiful Mojave Kingcup Cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus ssp. mojavensis) taken 4/26/25, Grand Canyon-Parashant NM. Fun fact: When kingcup cactus forms compact mounds, they can survive fire because the interior stems are protected by the outer stems. #ColoraDay #RedWed #photbyraykenny

This beautiful lake is in the San Juan Mountains of southwest CO. The cyan color is from fine glacial flour that interacts with sunlight scattering the blue & green wavelengths of light #ColoraDay #BlueTue #CyanTue #smArtist #warm #RockinTuesday #geology #nature #photography #photobyraykenny

This rock, in Yosemite National Park, has been polished & ground from the last glacial event, around 20,000 years ago. The striations, or lines, show the direction the glacier advanced or retreated. #RockinTuesday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Geology #nature #hiking #backpacking #JMT #photobyraykenny

I hope you all have an adventurous day. Adventurous in a good way, that is.

Good morning Blueskyers! Happy #BlueSkyMonday and #MountainMonday #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #photobyRayKenny #nature #hiking #backpacking #ProtectOurPublicLands

North of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah #Stunday #ShotsInSlots #PhotobyRayKenny #SlotCanyons #ProtectOurPublicLands

“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.”- Rachel Roy “The Dome” - western Grand Canyon #Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #sunset #NationalParks #Parkchat #hiking #nature #ProtectOurPublicLands #naturephotography #Esplanade #GrandCanyon

Engineer Mountain in the San Juan Mountains, a subset of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Taken on 8/16/25. #Stunday #Landscapephotography #nature #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands

The pothole On sandstone lies Waiting to absorb the colors of my soul I am brightness reflected I am a tree with dark strength #ColoraDay #RedWed #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass #poetry

Good morning! It’s #WaterfallWednesday. This beautiful cascade is located on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, CA. #WaterfallWednesday #AnselAdamsWilderness #photography #EastCoastKin #Waterfall #nature #landscapephotography #PhotographersofBlueSky #photobyraykenny

Two rare and endangered Sierra bighorns. These two are from the Bubbs Creek herd. #twofer #Twosday #widlife #photography #bighorns #SEKI #beautifulthings #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #nature #NationalParks #Parkchat #Sequoia&KingsCanyon #wildplaces

I love this #photobyraykenny of Ice Lake. Rosie the dog is in it for scale. #ColoraDay #CyanTue #DogsofBlueSky #SanJuanMountains #Hiking #nature #photography #Colorado

Painted Lady Mountain with a glass-like reflection in Upper Rae Lake, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park. #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass #NationalParks #Parkchat #nature #hiking

A blue Alpacka boat for #BlueSkyMonday. Photo taken on a packrafting loop in western Grand Canyon, April 27, 2024. #packrafting #alpackaraft #NationalParks #GrandCanyon #hiking #Parkchat #boating #nature #ProtectOutPublicLands

The lighting in Buckskin Canyon glowed a brilliant orange. #Stunday #ShotsInSlots #SlotCanyons #Wilderness #ProtectOurPublicLands #Paria #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #photobyraykenny #nature #hiking #backpacking

Zoroaster Temple, Grand Canyon before sunset. #Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #sunset #NationalParks #Parkchat #hiking #nature #ProtectOurPublicLands #naturephotography #photobyraykenny

The #jagged peaks in Miter Basin, John Muir Wilderness, CA #BlueSkyArtShow

A wildfire colors the sun as it fades into the night. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire #smArtist #sunshine #SensoryArt #emotion #photography #nature