Pictures of our Good Planet

To start us off, Skylar sent us 4 (four!) for me to choose from, and greedy me, I chose all of them(of course)

1. Lake Diablo in the North Cascades of Washington state....the aquamarine color of this lake along the N Cascade Loop Scenic Drive gives it a surreal look.

2. Near Newport, Oregon where the seagulls and a fishing boat add to the picturesque seascape along the central Oregon coast. We are always mesmerized by the various shades of blue and lavender we see on this coast.

3. Elephant Seals near San Simeon, California. These huge 2 ton males spar for love along the beach, and then rest in the sand exhausted from their efforts.

4. Golden Horn Granitic Batholiths in the North Cascades presents a different geological terrain of the Cascades which move from lush, green elevation to bare rock rising toward the sky. This reminded me of a sand castle with its intricate spires.

Two From Evan :

here's a mourning dove in winter

And a picture of a great purple anemone which I happened to came across in the northern area of the great barrier reef.

From C.Corax : Two Pics

The first is an immature red-tailed hawk sitting on a roof and studying me very carefully.

The second photo is a detail of a common green darner.

From Bev Wigney at the Burning Silo blog

Dogbane Beetle (Chrysochus auratus) on leaf of Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

Unidentified Katydid on Black-eyed Susan flower
(Rudbeckia hirta)

Liza Lee Miller

Thought everyone could use the cooling influence of a redwood tree!

Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds) sends us two:

The pink flowers are a cultivar of dogwood, found growing in Bear Creek Park, Surrey. And the white flowers are tiny, tiny flowers on my boxwood hedge, so small I didn't even know they were there until I went looking for a crab spider I thought I had seen.

Dawn from Washington sent us:

this is a song sparrow soaking up the sun after a cloudy morning yesterday.

From Robin Andrea at the Dharma Bums


I've barely been out taking photographs, but I checked back a few days and found this one. The baby had been somewhere in our front yard, and the momma was off by the driveway. When I came out of the house they both ran up the driveway to the road, and I slowly went out there and snapped this pic.

Dave from Alaska sent in this cutie:

This is a baby Merlin that fell from it's nest and Ma & Pa were no where to be found. It was brought into the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage, Alaska where it was fed, watered, weighed and checked over before it was sent home with a foster mom.

Dave Dorsey
Bird Treatment and Learning Center
6132 Nielson Way, Anchorage, AK 99518
Returning Birds to the Wild since 1988


From Tara, a slide show that's basically an ad. But still, they are good photos.

http://mybeautifulamerica.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm

this is a departure from the usual "Good Planets"
submission, but I think might be most appropriate.


And finally, two from my walk by the river yesterday:

Amazing difference between flood stage and the regular flow, most of this shoreline and back into the woods is under water in the spring. Yesterday I walked on a sandbar right out into the middle of the stream.

This snag washed up about 10 feet into the woods off of a bend in the stream.

That's all for the Good Planets this week, next submission date is 07/27 - send your pics of our good planet to me at sbgypsy @ hotmail.com.
So many thanks to Robin Andrea for starting this traveling picture show, I had a great time with all these beauties.

*as always, click on the pic for a larger view.

...And feel free to hang around for a few and enjoy the pics downthread...