#aspen west

[rhodeybugg]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled murder drones lesbians to bring you: Steam Powred Giraffe lesbians! Aspen [the right] is my oc, and her girlfriend, Echo [left] belongs to my unofficially adopted mother, @visceralvoid !

[Also i've re-discovered my love of SPG so that's gonna start appearing here too >:3]

[vandaliatraveler]

Debby swept through the area on Friday. Yesterday, all that remained of the storm was a strong, steady breeze. Few things will connect you to nature more quickly than the wind riffling through aspen leaves. The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Canaan Valley is part of a disjunct population located well south of its normal northerly range. The high elevation of the valley allows species normally found much farther north to thrive here. Along the Middle Ridge Trail in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

[ultralowvelocityzone]

The Colorado Rocky Mountains

[wickerfox]

OC sketch and doodle dump bc I can't be normal abt them

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Goober SMP Map!

Labels are probably kinda biased to what I've personally interacted with, but it should be most of the stuff, I think

[forestgreenivy]

Frisco, CO in September.

[ellynneversweet]

Me, dangling a fic carrot in front of my brain so I might (might) daydream it into fruition: what if Adam and Wellesley, hanging out in the early 70s shooting the shit re: PTSD management techniques and also the best way to blow up the side of a mountain.*

*Bran has to repeatedly stress that these are two seperate and entirely distinct categories of activity, please, do not blow up my territory.

[thorsenmark]

Spring Beauty Found in Great Basin National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a meadow of tall grasses and sagebrush leading up to a forest and mountainside off in the distance. This was while walking the Dead Lake Trail in Great Basin National Park. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 5 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

[amateurconfessions]

july 1, 2022 - midway, utah

enchanted forest of open-eyed aspen

my mind's eye often seeks your gaze

perform your spell through light-leaked leaves

before I must leave this place

[adventures-with-aspen]

Look!!!

[swkrullimaging]

Mine Country Autumn and a Hawk

Mine Country Autumn and a Hawk

[vandaliatraveler]

The northern end of Canaan Valley is characterized by regenerating northern hardwood forests interspersed with red spruce, open fields converting from pasture to heath, and beaver-curated wetlands. When the first white settlers arrived in the mid-1800's, the valley was a nearly impenetrable wilderness composed of mud-sucking "muskegs", gnarly rhododendron thickets, and monstrous stands of red spruce and eastern hemlock. Within 50 years, it was all gone, cut over and burned down down to bare rock. Salvation for this "Land of Canaan" has only recently come in the form of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, which has set about the painstaking restoration of the valley's diverse (and occasionally threatened or endangered) plant and animal communities, some reaching their southernmost limits in these mountains.

From top: a view toward Cabin Mountain from Middle Ridge, whose open flank is overrun by lowbush blackberry, mountain laurel, bushy St. John's wort, bracken fern, and dotted hawthorn; several of the beaver-engineered wetlands, a mecca for birdwatchers from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region; the blazing red berries of red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa), a hugely important food source for local wildlife; the fanning white corymbs of American black elderberry (Sambucus canadensis), which comes into bloom about two months after red elderberry; quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), whose delicate leaves flutter in unison at the slightest breeze; a beautiful young Canaan fir (Abies balsamea var phanerolepsis), a subspecies of balsam fir whose fragrant, blue foliage and high needle retention have made it increasingly popular as an ornamental; a lovely patch of hairy hedge nettle (Stachys hispida), a stately native mint; tall meadow rue (Thalictrum pubescens), a wetlands-loving perennial that clumps impressively along streambanks and bog margins; and lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), whose berries are just now starting to ripen.

[ultralowvelocityzone]

Inner Basin, Lockett Meadow

#aspens#fall colors#autumn leaves#lockett meadow#arizona#nature photography#american west#my photography

[wickerfox]

Background practices I did a while back featuring a few ocs

[evancelt]

Wester Into The Aspens