The Great Sand Dunes National Park looks a lot smaller from the air.
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Minneapolis
In most cities, people stay inside when it gets cold.
In Minneapolis we just celebrate the new parks that appear once the ice is sufficiently thick.
Mountains
Notice how, whenever you see skiing on TV, they only show the parts of the mountain with snow on?
Waterwalk
The metadata tells me that I took this photo on October 31st last year, so I’m just going to say that this is the best bridge costume I’ve ever seen.
Mountain
Never understood why there wasn’t more skiing in Arizona.
Jumping Cholla
Oh the wintertime is coming
And the cacti sharply blooming
And the wild jumping cholla
Grows around the fairy duster
Will ye go, madam go?
And we’ll all go together
To not pluck jumping cholla
All around the palo verde
Will ye go, madam go?
I will build my love a tower
Near dry and barren fountain
And on it I will pile
All the garnets of the mountain
Will ye go, madam go?
And we’ll all go together
To not pluck jumping cholla
All around the palo verde
Will ye go, madam go?
If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
To not pluck jumping cholla
All around the palo verde
Will ye go, madam go?
And we’ll all go together
To not pluck jumping cholla
All around the palo verde
Will ye go, madam go?
Let us go, madam, go?
Trees
These trees recently got into college and joined the drama program.
They are quite serious about their art.
Plant
Sometimes the hotspot you get with infrared on some lenses works to your advantage.
Safari Park
Just the safari park in infrared
Infrared Rawr
I’ve heard that if you stand still, they can’t see you.
They must have bumped into trees a lot.
Mountains
Pretty sure Mordor is around here somewhere.
LA
It’s like they decorated LA for Christmas and then decided it would be too much work to take down the lights after.
Minneapolis
You could fit most of downtown Minneapolis in one of the metro’s lakes.
But please don’t.
La Brea Caracara
Caracaras mostly eat carrion. As only bones remain, the La Brea Caracara was apparently cannibalistic. This might be why they went extinct.
Fossil Bugs
Some people spend days painstakingly cleaning the tar off ancient beetles just to have museum visitors look at them and say “Oh. Bugs.”
This is where mad scientists come from.
Fossil Saber-toothed Cat
Thanks to the La Brea pits, we have a really good idea of what saber-toothed cats looked like.
Well, their insides, anyway.
CO2 Cycle
The La Brea museum did not make it clear, but I’m pretty sure this means that you can’t use carbon dating for time periods before bison existed.
Lake
The reason lake waters do not reflect perfectly is that it is the slight imperfection between the image and reality that keeps the malevolent water spirits from breaking free from their entrapment.
Pond
Malachite is not, in fact, the result of pond fossilization.
But it should be.
Upper Newport Bay
They sure do put a lot more colour by the water out there.