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Wintry Wasatch Mountain Peaks

By Mia McPherson|2024-01-11T04:50:34-06:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: Salt Lake County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: cloudy, cloudy sky, gray, mountain, mountains, peaks, range, slopes, snow, snow covered, snowy, trees, Wasatch Mountains, winter, wintry|

Yesterday afternoon, I drove down to my local pond, hoping that I could see the snowy Wasatch Mountain peaks through the clouds. This was about the best view I got.

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Immature Red-tailed Hawk With Mountains In The Background

By Mia McPherson|2022-10-15T04:00:13-05:00October 15th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: autumn, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteos, early morning light, fall, hatch year, hawk, hawks, immature, marsh, mountains, nest box, nestbox, perched, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, slopes, stern, young|

My best bird photos from yesterday morning at Farmington Bay WMA were of an immature Red-tailed Hawk with the shadowed Wasatch Mountain slopes in the background.

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October West Desert Views Of Clouds, Mountains, And The Moon

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-10T06:19:13-05:00October 10th, 2021|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: canyons, cirrus clouds, clouds, desert, foothills, junipers, landscape, moon, moon set, mountains, peaks, sage, sagebrush, scenic, sky, sky island mountains, slopes, snow, Stansbury Mountains, trees, west desert|

Today I wanted to share these photos of some West Desert views of clouds, mountains, and the moon because I'd like to be out there seeing and photographing them all.

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West Desert Mountains

By Mia McPherson|2021-03-16T06:25:39-05:00March 16th, 2021|Categories: Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: clouds, dirt road, February, landscapes, morning, mountains, road, sky, slopes, snow, snow-topped, winter|

Some days start off the wrong way and when they do I look for things that soothe me. Views of mountains calm me down so today I am sharing a simple view of some West Desert mountains.

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Lupines of the Centennial Valley of Montana

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-16T11:31:38-05:00July 30th, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, Montana, Wildflowers|Tags: Beaverhead County, Centennial Valley, clouds, Lupinus argenteus, mountains, purple wildflowers, Silvery Lupine, sky, slopes, wildflowers|

I believe these are Silvery Lupine (Lupinus argenteus), taken on my recent trip to southwestern Montana using my bird setup to do a close up image.

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