Downhill To Dinner bend

Downhill To Dinner bendA juniper hairstreak navigates its way down through a clump of leafy arnica flowers in Montana's Pryor Mountain Range. These beautiful butterflies seem out of place here in the Rocky Mountains, appearing each early summer to lend brilliant color to what is otherwise a semi desert landscape of red dirt and limestone outcrops.

The Cottonwood Lutheran church

2019 at 5:05am when the temperature was sixteen degrees below zero

On this evening

taken in the middle of March when the temperature was well below zero

From the hundreds of 4:1 macro photos of the Leprieur's glory butterfly's wings

shown in the second image here

Madagascar's day-flying sunset moth

I wrap my camera with chemical hand warmers

At the height of this summer's wildflower bloom

beautiful color and contrast

but can be custom ordered up to more than twice that size

but the view - at high altitude in low humidity - is always worthwhile