Your Outdoors Photos: August

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Sat., Aug. 1, 2015

Photos in This Album

Riverfront Park at night

Photographer: Nick Brommer
Priest Lake Plane

Photographer: Nick Brommer
Photoshop test

Photographer: Dan Gayle
sunset on old barn in Blanchard, Idaho Taken 8-17-15

Photographer: Brent Flint
Young elk playing outside of Prichard, Idaho during late July 2015

Photographer: Dell Howard
Elk fawns playing outside of Pritchard, Idaho. Late July 2015

Photographer: Dell Howard
This Bobcat just sat on our deck and all but posed for this picture.... our house kitty Mr Gates DID NOT like it one bit.... Taken in Klamath Falls, Oregon Summer 2014

Photographer: Dana VanTassel
Chipmunk stopping for a drink of water in the bird bath.

Photographer: Sarah Dahl
The sunflowers in my backyard are attracting lots of honeybees. Taken 8/18/15

Photographer: Renae Meredith
Woodpecker

Photographer: Maxie Ray Mills
Just cruising by a game cam in northern Stevens County.

Photographer: Robin Harina
Two hungry fawns stopped this busy mama in her tracks to feed this evening. I see them frequently on our property on the South Hill.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Lichen in water, very interesting in its passage.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Lucky mushrooms?!

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Ant in a tree with various Lichen.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Milky Way over beach driftwood, between La Push and James Island. Rialto Beach 8.12.15

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Gorgeous sunset taken from Arbor Crest Winery on Thursday, August 13, 2015.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Juvenile bald eagle at Waitts Lake on August 14, 2015. There were a total of three of them hanging out together.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
I found this Western Skink hanging around my garage. Their tails are blue like this when they are young. They are helpful in controlling garden pests. Taken 8-7-15.

Photographer: Brent Flint
Here's a closeup of one of the two babies who spent some time around our cabin at Cave Bay recently (lake CDA).

Photographer: Mary Beth Wright
Mama and her babies spent a couple days around our cabin in Cave Bay on Lake CDA. Love those babies!

Photographer: Mary Beth Wright
A Perseid Meteor zips through the sky above the old Govan Schoolhouse. The meteor appears to have a straighter trajectory than the spire on top of the decaying building.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
A wider angle of the sunset tonight!

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
A nice sunset shot I got from Spokane Valley. I really like the way this one turned out with no edits. Dated 8/13/2015

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
Meteor/stargazing from the Vista House atop Mt. Spokane early Thursday morning!

Photographer: Zach Jeffers
Taken yesterday on Long Lake. A fire plane is filling up to return to the Rutter Canyon fire.

Photographer: Malia Austin
This was taken yesterday on Long Lake. A fire plane is headed back to the Rutter Canyon fire.

Photographer: Malia Austin
Preening hummingbird July 17, near Republic, WA

Photographer: Nancy McCambridge
I was thinking of fire and brimstone when I saw tonight's sunset, the result of haze from the Indian Trail fire.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Photo taken from Brownes addition a couple months ago of the brush fire near the cemetery.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
Three Sisters fire near Bayview, Idaho taken on august 2, 2015.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
This 123-foot tall lookout was placed on Moses Mountain north of Nespelem, Washington, in 1938. Some say this is the tallest lookout west of the Mississippi in the US. Moses Mountain is 6774 feet high.

Photographer: Robert D. Jones
The incomparable Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe died in Nespelem, Washington, in 1904. This monument was placed on his grave in 1905.

Photographer: Robert D. Jones
Under the Milky Way 8.7.2015 Upper Twin

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Aug. 2015 Flowers along walkway. All except the white peeking out were volunteers. Fun to watch appear and a big splash of color.

Photographer: Margaret Dingle
Beautiful in death.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Yellow jacket in a thistle.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Feasting butterfly.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Bee in a Dandelion.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Daisy rock.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Moose cools off in Painted Hills neighborhood on Aug. 4.

Photographer: Kathy Johnson
Mountain goat at Lake Chelan

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Fighting the Wolverine Creek fire at Lake Chelan, August 3.

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Picture of the blue moon over the weekend from the catwalk around Up Up Lookout Tower in NW Montana over the weekend. No wolves - the only howling we hear came from "inside" the lookout....

Photographer: Wayne Wright
Milky Way Twin Lakes Id 8.5.15

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
I can never resist grabbing the camera when the swallowtail butterflies are passing through. The colors of nature are truly wondrous, and many brilliant combinations of color can be found in our own back yard.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Milky Way rising Twin Lakes Id 8.4.2015

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Hikers enjoy the view after scrambling up from Leigh Lake, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

Photographer: Brad Smith
Granite Creek Falls, below Granite Lake, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

Photographer: Phil Hough
Granite Lake, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

Photographer: Phil Hough
Chipmunk. My favorite photo from Aug. 1.

Photographer: Terry Gray of Moscow
Hummingbird chicks fledged from their nest in our chokecherry tree on the last day of July. What a joy.

Photographer: Linda L Hunt