Recent Selected and Special Photos
page 2 of Bob Grumbine's NEW Travel Site

eyes of wonder The Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary 8 miles north from the intersection of I-80 and Hwy 395 in Reno NV and 12 miles east on Red Rock Road has reopened for the 2007 season.  Here, a young human visitor is reflected in the plexiglass between us and Piper the Bobcat who lives at the Ark	Sharp Beak sharp beak bird seen 070315 in large tree next to main parking lot in Washoe Lake State Park (a few miles from home) which provides access to Lake Washoe and boat launching for those so equipped	ratsnake yellow rat snake seen 070306 in the "ssSnakes Alive!" exhibit in the Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael, Reno Nevada
young coot young coot seen 070217 swimming on Lake Mohave Nevada	ravens quoth the ravens "soft touch Bob's certified 100% natural wild bird seed is nutricious", recorded at the Coso Junction Safety Rest Area on 070215	managed fire the management!!! "Managed Fire / Do Not Report" said the sign south of Bridgeport CA as I passed this eerie area on 070214
presidential dollar bright shiny new coin	poopee R  E  S  P  E  C  T	snowed in snow day,  Feb 2007 travels.  After days of warm weather, I stepped out of my motel room with camera only long enough to record this and a few other sights in Ely Nevada that day
river duck pretty little female duck; among the many birds seen along the RiverWalk in Laughlin Nevada on 070217	The River Mojave River through Barstow CA seen 070216.  Not only is it really a river "sometimes" but they have memorable FLOODS.  See also my album about the Western American Railroad Museum	flock a small portion of the watchable wildlife, in the eastern part of the Harper Dry Lake marshes north of Hwy 58 in CA, landing, taking off, and walking around one of their little islands
moraine west of Crowley Lake CA seen 070214	skating young coot ice skating on Herman's Pond in Rancho San Rafael, Reno NV, seen 070203 (more photos from this visit are in the full Winter Fun (IE) album)	wildlife only wildlife seen at frozen over Swan Lake north of Reno NV on 070123 were these birds, shown in photo montage, from nearby Reno-Stead airport
opera house entry door to the "Amargosa Opera House" in the virtual ghost town of Death Valley Junction CA	spork works really well for meals on the road and in motel rooms while travelling	musical ice cubes stiff wind from a pending snow storm on 070103 broke up the ice cover on Lake Washoe then sonorously rattled the resulting ice cubes together in the chilly afternoon
sunset sunset 040319 over Smith Valley in southwest Nevada	V&T plans route of the planned reconstruction of the Virginia & Truckee Short Line Railroad	Pony Express mountains in Nevada just south of Hwy 50 from the Cold Springs Pony Express station seen 061203
trainmoj ultra long freight train seen 061208 rumbles across the Mojave Desert between Kelso and Cima California see also the Kelso/Cima Railroad full album	Fighter a World War II fighter plane seen 061207 at the Palm Springs Air Museum sits on the tarmac at the ready while in the distance a modern passenger jet prepares for takeoff	lotabull long horned bull seen  061206 at The Living Desert  in Palm Desert CA
live oak tree live oak tree seen 061205 growing in the midst of the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree National Park where everybody else is a yucca or other cactus	cactus cactus seen 061204 against background of surrounding mountains in the Mojave Desert Reserve between I-15 and I-40 in California	faults turbulent landscape immediately east of the fault line identified by the 1954 earthquake of Richter 7.3 magnitude at the Fairview Earthquake Faults sight in Nevada just south of Hwy 50 visited 061203
sunset sunset August 15, 2004 at 8:00:32pm PST seen from home in Carson City NV	colorful mountains colorful mountains in Death Valley National Park seen 051116	courtyard courtyard between Scotty's Castle at the northwest end of Death Valley CA and the house in which his suckahs/investors the Johnsons lived seen 041018
mountain goat mountain goat seen at Zoo Boise 060818	hiking hiking paths accessible from the Spooner Summit parking lot, part of the 165 mile Tahoe Rim Trail system discovered 061109 during my continuing inventory of sights to see along the Carson to Tahoe highway	Band-i Amir lakes at Band-i Amir Afghanistan originally recorded in 1976, first published 2006
silly monkey silly monkey seen 060609 at the Applegate Park Zoo in Merced CA tempting visitors to ignore the sign on his cage "monkeys bite fingers"	chasing tail while I was waiting for the Fresno CA Chaffee Zoo to open 060608, I saw this little squirrel in Roeding Park.  After climbing a tree, he draped himself around a tree branch in order to clean his own tail	new breed one of the 76 species of birds at Brannan Island State Recreation Area which is numerous there but that I had never seen before my 060607 visit. This pair was sitting on the boating docks near the first of many parking areas in the SRA
primrose beautiful flower seen 060606 identified by a gardener in the McConnell Arboretum of the Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding CA as a Mexican Primrose	wild California deer best photo of the many wild California deer seen near the Park Ranger Station in the Lake Manzanita area of Lassen Volcanic National Park on 060605	swimming the clear waters of Lake Mead allowed me to photograph numerous large fish, these two next to the boating pier at Callville Bay     early in the morning of 060427
chicken actually it is a rooster, but that is a male of the chicken species so it counts.  Seen 060426 at the Las Vegas Nevada zoo on North Rancho Drive	pigeon Got me a pigeon! on my very own back porch! pecking up some of the certified 100% natural wild bird seed that I spread out there for my birdly visitors on 060320	Kure flower created with a Rube Goldberg method of displaying old VHS tapes on a telebitchin screen, photographing the screen, then fading the telebitchin's wavy lines with 1.5 pixels of Gaussian blur

coins Tanzania 5 Shilingi in XF condition of which 8 million were minted of CuNi alloy in 1972.  My first effort at using a digital scanner to photograph each side of a coin and then to integrate the photos into a single image

First Step watch out for that first step at the end of the landing!  Recent storms had not been kind to the beaches of South Lake Tahoe CA, forming major erosion patterns in the sand such as this one immediately in front of the westernmost stairway from street level down to the beaches as seen during my visit 051223	Le Pot Chaud electric hot pot with 8 oz water, timer set to 15 mins after boiling begins, and ingredients clockwise from top, 1/4 cup rice, 1/8 tsp black pepper, 1/8 tsp red pepper, one bullion cube, 3/8 tsp dried minced onion, 3/8 tsp curry powder.  Not shown is the 3 oz tuna fish, chunk ham, chunk chicken or other low fat meat added one minute before cooking is done.  A still life	berries seen on a bush next to the driveway at the Thomas J. Edwards House built circa 1883. The south side of the house is on West Musser Street as is the north side of the Carson County Court House a mile to the east. The drive is on Minnesota Street, fourth street west of the main Carson Street (Hwy 395) through the city
peekaboo I was delighted that some of the little guys that I feed were playing peekaboo with me from a nearby bush, when I returned home 051203, rather than promptly flying away as they usually do	mountain goat sweet little relative of the Bighorn Sheep at the Living Desert seen 051118.  There being no artistic merit to having a heavy leather leash and chain link to her collar in my final picture, however useful for safety reasons in a zoo with lotsa critters capable of eating her and lotsa botanicals capable of being eaten, I retouched the photo to eliminate those artistic distractions	rest area miles even from the small town of Tonopah NV with nothing around but a few cactus and some sagebrush plants, this pigeon was part of an entire flock of such birds flying and strutting around the Miller's Rest Area in the southeast Nevada desert next to Hwy 95 seen 051119
sociable camel sociable camel in Village Watutu at the far end of the wild animal exhibits at the Living Desert Reserve who came clear across his large corral to chat with me while I was visiting on 051118, put his head through the corral fencing for the chat (and to rub his neck occasionally against the tree you see in the photo)	butterflies a group of butterflies gathers on a fruit plate prepared for their enjoyment at the brand new (only four days since opening) Butterflies Alive! exhibition in cooperation with the USDA at the Living Desert Reserve in Palm Desert CA seen 051117	creosote bloom Among the hundreds of acres of creosote plants, that I've seen here in the Desert Southwest, this is the first I saw in bloom. Along the Beatty access road into Death Valley National Park 051116
mining abandoned mining structure through a dead bush west of the rest stop in Luning Nevada seen on my travel down Hwy 95 towards Death Valley on 051115	sand painting this sand painting purchased from a Navajo art outlet along Hwy I-40 in New Mexico many years ago is one of the few artifacts that I allow on my walls these days. Test photo to make sure the software for my new dig it all camera was working properly before heading out on the road	water flow real world demonstration of numerous ways of dealing with the flow of water in our arrid high desert mountain environment which has been built within the Wilbur D. May Arboretum, as photographed during my 040110 visit there
surprise this little five pointed star flower, only about one inch across, was growing at the base of a plant I photographed from about six feet away in the Wilbur D. May Arboretum in Reno NV on 051105 with my new dig it all camera	sparrows two of the sparrows that I regularly feed sitting on a rooftop near our agreed feeding area on 051104. My new dig it all P-850 camera shows its abilities for getting good photos of small objects at considerable distance from me	Bull Bear Conflict symbolizing the eternal conflict between upward and downward driving forces of nature and of civilization, this bronze is a miniature of a larger statue resident in the members dining room at the New York Stock Exchange
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