White tail deer running up a sagebrush covered hill

Cloudy skies over mountains with some lower clouds. A sagebrush covered hill in the left foreground

Close up of pine cones and needles

Trees and sagebrush in a gully. The picture is taken from above looking down. Sagebrush covered hills in the background

Here’s some pictures from our walk this morning 🙂

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very horizontal photo of the view north from the yard - greening pasture with sagebrush in left foreground with bare willows and occasional pine trees beyond; fence posts running from right to center; bulbous grey clouds nearby with grey to blue stratus clouds beyond; snow topped mountain at right

bit-o-rain

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Dancing with light in the upper Snake River Valley. The St. Anthony Sand Dunes are under rated.

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Just out for a short walk along the upper reaches of the Weiser River Trail today.
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Brownish grey bird walking on a gravel road

Brownish grey bird on the ground in some small branches. It’s back is facing the camera and it’s looking left

Dusty Grouse (we think) on our walk 🩶

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Clematis mania! It’s so pretty when it’s all in bloom. I’ll be sure to share more when it opens up 😍🥰
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One of my favorite places in the world, up in the Big Lonesome near the summit of the Little Lost River and Pahsimeroi valleys. #IdahoEscape

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Two light brown birds with long necks are walking through a green pasture. Trees that are just starting to bud in the background and a wooden fence with barbed wire in the foreground

Got to see see two Sandhill cranes yesterday on the way to the post office 💛

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And to all, all a good night! #IdahoEscape #IdahoGems #thisisboise

roan colored male duck in water

roan colored male duck and mottled female duck in water

roan colored male duck in water, preening w/ green & white under-colors exposed

Okay, bird people. Am I looking at cinnamon teals or some other visitor?
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horizontal black silhouette of a ridge & mountain line before dawn, with just the twilight behind - clear sky ranging from cream at bottom to deep blue/black upper right

Here comes Thursday...
#sunrise
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The Lost River Range forming the horizon.

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Warm spring day at the Idaho Botanical Gardens. The image depicts a serene corner of the Garden in Boise with a stone gazebo, bench and a tree

Wife & I escaped work for a couple hours this morning for a long photo walk around the #Idaho Botanical #Garden

I think we both shot a couple rolls of 35mm film and I shot some medium format as well. Will develop later tonight.

I only took 2 phone pics, here’s one.

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Brown horse lying on its side. In a green pasture with another horse in the background

How I’ve felt since 01/20/2025

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greening rolling pasture with pine covered ridge and snow topped mountain in background. somewhere in this photo is a ground squirrel

Here's Waldo, the first above ground ground squirrel of the year.

[side note: There's got to be a word as cool as "subterranean" that means the opposite of subterranean, but I don't know what it is. Epiterranean? Superterranean?]
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The sunset was back lit tonight on the Arco Desert. Looking east toward the Tetons.

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Break time ☮️

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Small brown dog in a blue sweater and orange harness. She’s looking to the right. Sagebrush all around

Izzy in her happy place 🧡

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Snow capped mountain with blue sky and white clouds

Snow capped mountain with blue sky and white clouds There is a pine tree left foreground

Snow capped mountain with blue sky and white clouds It’s a little dark the sun is shining through the clouds on the right

Snow capped mountain with blue sky and white clouds and tree covered mountain in the background. The foreground is green grass with some black dots. The dots are bulls

Nice day today so we did our morning walk on my favorite off road area

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Crocus and snowdrops starting to bloom

I think it’s spring #idahoescape

horizontal photo of fog from yesterday's snow melt grey sky with varying thickness and sun haloed low center fenceposts at bottom with one birdhouse at far left (fence is leaning from elk jumping over, which means I need to go check its integrity) lone bare cottonwood at right scattered frosted clumps/tufts of vegetation across field

All the snowmelt yesterday made for fog this morning.
Saturday sunrise
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Despite yesterday’s wind, rain & grapple extravaganza, my flowering quince bush is still in action!
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Late afternoon sky full of complex clouds between rain/snow/graupel showers, looking SW at Hyatt Hidden Lakes in Boise

From yesterday's Out Like a Lion / April Fools springtime in the Rockies lollapalooza, view to the SW from Hyatt Hidden Lakes
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Needing a break from the chaos!
#sunset last week
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*Idaho Escape feed update*
Tweaking the logic a bit. Lately, words like "beautiful" are appearing in too many political posts without words that would exclude them from the feed

still recommend using the #IdahoEscape hashtag or tags like #art, #photography, #sunset, #pet to get your posts included