Something different today. It is still spring in Colorado - currently 17 deg F and snowing. The snow is predicted to continue until midnight. To compensate, I am posting photos taken when it was warm and the sun was shining.
It is still spring in Colorado.
Foxtail Barley (Hordeum jubatum). Photo taken at the Swan Lake Nature Study Area near Reno NV in July 2019. I was on my way to California to participate in a party celebrating a friend's retirement from the University of California-Davis.
The 4 photos were taken with an Olympus E-M1MarkII camera with a 300mm f/4 lens and 1.4x teleconverter attached. This was the camera and lens combination I had been using to photograph birds at the Study Area. On my way back to the parking lot, I captured these images of this grass that is common in some parts of the West. I read that the grass is unpopular with ranchers because the bristles pierce the mouths of the livestock that graze it. LINK
The wind was blowing and parts of this image are out of focus, but when viewed from a distance, this may be my favorite of the four.