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Shot of the Week

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

This week’s shot of the week was taken at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Because I thought it was cool, mostly. (It’s not a Moose! Look at the antlers. Besides you can’t hunt there so I’m sure it died of natural causes or a long time ago.)

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Motley Monday Memorial Day Check in

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This promises to be the first beautiful weekend day this chilly, windy spring here. Only needed a weekend day on a weekday to confuse the universe enough to get it.

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Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

This week’s shot of the week was taken at Yellowstone National Park. Chipmunks there are too tame. You’re not supposed to feed them, but clearly people are.

Chipmonk

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

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This week’s shot of the week was taken in the butterfly garden at Kiptopke State Park here in Virginia.

Skipper

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

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This week’s shot of the week: A follow-up to last week’s theme of aquatic birds in trees, here is a Great Egret, grooming itself. Also taken at Chincoteague.

Egret

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

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This week’s shot of the week: Great Blue Heron in an evergreen tree. I’ve taken lots of pics of Great Blues, but this is both the oddest and my favorite.

Great blue heron in a tree

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

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I am in transit home from my visit to Khloe, so this will be a post and run.

Here’s today’s Motley Monday Shot of the Week, Mabry Mill along the Blue Ridge Parkway on a crisp fall day.

Another view of the mill

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

Here’s today’s Motley Monday Shot of the Week, a female Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly. Females and immature males are this happy green to blend with the grass. Males get a dusty light blue coloration when they mature. Like birds, it’s the male in most dragonfly species that are the most colorful. With Eastern Pondhawks, the females have the brighter color, but only to blend with spring grass.

female eastern pondhawk

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

Here’s today’s Motley Monday Shot of the Week, taken at Yellowstone National Park in 2010

Lower Falls

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

Here’s today’s Motley Monday Shot of the Week. Right now I’ll be throwing in some favorites from my archives, but once the weather warms (which it is finally showing signs of doing) I’ll post my week’s best shot.

Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, WV