Couple of Cute Bugs

From the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society photowalk at the Pine Valley trailhead in Kendall Hills. Sometimes I forget how lucky it is to have a National Park right in my own back yard.

Anyway, this shiny little bug is a dogbane beetle. Round, polished, and rainbow metallic.

 

And a katydid on ironweed. There's more antennae there than bug.

The Pine Hollow trailhead is nothing much to look at during the day or evening, but on the right kind of morning, the sun catches the mist rising from Kendall Lake, and the puffy popcorn clouds, and transform the hills. Now if only I could catch that in the camera...

Mormon Row, Grand Teton National Park

We crawled out of bed at 3:30 am so we could be in place for the 5:09 sunrise. Thank you, Hampton Inn, for having a coffee maker in the room. And thank you, Chuck for being a total trooper on this trip!

Love the way the sun caught this cottage's façade.

Same cottage, the evening before the sunrise shoot - 20 seconds later, it was pouring rain and we dove for the car.

Lonely buildings, just at the edge of Mormon Row.

Must've taken a thousand shots of this barn...

This, above, might be my favorite.

The mountains change color as the sun rises.

And across the way, down a little dirt road, the iconic Moulton barn, echoing the shape of the peaks in the distance.

And, finally, the unloved, rarely shot barn on the other side of Mormon Row. I like the way the light catches and outlines the porch.

June 3, 2013