Nice marmot

Oh, OK, here are more pixels of marmot (crop from above pik)... [Glaysher* Park, Montana,USA]
*it's how the Americans pronounce "glacier"

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northeast west South Dakota

northeast west South Dakota, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

The really good Badlands

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Devil's Work

Devil's Tower, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.
Animist religions worship everything, but the temple-ish look of this bit of geology makes  it is easy to understand why it is thought special by the American Indians. Curiously, while it was crawling with rock-climbers, not one was to be seen scaling George Washington's brow at Mt Rushmore (see last post). Perhaps the granite of the latter is just too slippery...

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Giant politics

photo, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

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Midget politics

photo, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

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Wyoming

Wyoming pasture, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

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Open-door parking

It is the same place as the other pix. Starbucks is on the left. I don't need to ask what kind of car this is, as it was clearly labelled with "E Series Jaguar" on the back.

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lotuses

They were flowering about a month ago, but at that time there were all those mountain photos that needed to be posted...

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Predator

Preying in the evening

Preying in the morning Yesterday, this grasshopper was still hopping around. Wonder how long it will last...

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just insects

James sends me out into the mosquito infested swamps for bug-safari, but when I return and show him the photos he dismisses them as "just insects". I wonder what he expected. These are about 6 cm long. Sneaking up on them was intereting. It made me feel a bit more like a hunter-gatherer and a bit less like a 21st century consumer.

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Cicada carapace

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Humping ladybirds

Actually there is another mountain picture. It seems that a number of insecty things fly to the mountain peaks especially to mate. Nice location for a sex-holiday I suppose. The swallowtail butterflies seemed to be at it on one peak, and on another a swarm of massive ladybirds (~1cm) were doing their thing.

P.S. This is it, I reckon.

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