by Rich Leighton | Nov 30, 2015 | Mushrooms, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Washington
The Pacific Northwest is known for lots of things, but did you know its coastal region is also the mushroom capital of North America? Like any fungus, a mushroom or lichen thrives in wet, cool and damp places, especially if there is a lot of shade from conifer forests...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 12, 2015 | American Southwest, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, New Mexico, Texas, Travel, Wildflowers
Recently passing through Western Texas and Southern New Mexico, I by chance ran into a fellow Master Naturalist based near Albuquerque who told me all about the chocolate daisy (Berlandiera lyrata) a member of the aster family of native North Americans wildflowers. I...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 6, 2015 | Ancient America, Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Washington
This is my third entry into my new series, Ancient America which features a minimalistic, raw and unpolished look at black and white landscape photography from around North America from the viewpoint of what it would have looked like when the first people arrived....
by Rich Leighton | May 21, 2015 | American Southwest, California, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Travel
Quick post today from a even shorter stop just outside of Mecca, California in the dry and arid Colorado Desert where I found some very beautiful trees in flower and an interesting flowering bush that brings in loads of hummingbirds! Blue Palo Verde with Beans This...
by Rich Leighton | May 19, 2015 | Arizona, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
As I was starting to put this post together, I kept adding so many images that it got a bit ridiculous so I decided to break it up into three parts. None of the images in this are necessarily from the same place in Arizona, but cover the entire lower half of the state...
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