Quaking Aspen seen through the door of the old bunk shack, where we've camped before.
Interior of bunk shack showing two platforms for sleeping.
Exterior of bunk shack, in a grove of quaking Aspen trees.
Selfie with the Little Blitzen Gorge in the background.
I was recently in my happy place.
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Scrubland bordering the Alvord Desert. So many rattle snakes.
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A Great Golden Digger Wasp perched on a Yellow Sage flower near Frenchglen, Oregon, in the southeastern part of the state near the Steens Mountain. These non-aggressive wasps are beneficial pollinators, and while males lack a stinger, females rarely use theirs except to paralyze prey. Nesting underground, the female stocks each chamber with immobilized insects—often grasshoppers or katydids—on which she lays a single egg. When the larva hatches, it consumes the still-living prey, ensuring a fresh food source.
A Great Golden Digger Wasp on a Yellow Sage flower near Frenchglen, Oregon in the southeastern part of the state. I took this in mid-September a few years ago while looking for a wild horse herd. #greatgoldendiggerwasp #oregon #steensmountain #wildlifephotography #invertebrates #frenchglen
Sunset lights the trees at the edge of a gorge in the Steens Mountain wilderness in Oregon.
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