Swan Rangers endured skies both blue and smoky during their outings this past week!

Scroll down to see the rest of their photos and details!

In our lead photo, Lynn Smith captures a smoky-sky sunrise on flowing water!

Debra Schweitzer found blue skies for her photos of . . .

. . . beautiful mountain lakes!

Dee Blank found a lot of red rock at this mountain lake and . . .

. . . a wind-swept Whitebark pine!

Lynn Smith found a Gray jay while . . .

. . . Ruth Quist saw this Dove, which lacked the collar of a Eurasian collared dove, but is darker than most local Mourning doves.

Ruth also saw this gorgeous Dragonfly while . . .

. . . Lynn Smith saw this Sulphur butterfly!

Pat Jaquith came across this Gem-studded puffball growing among Dog pelt lichen . . .

. . . a pair of Whitetail bucks in an “antler hug” and . . .

. . . in our parting shot, a Wolf spider carrying its babies on its back!

If you have interesting photos of your outings, send them along with a description to keith@swanview.org and we'll try to work them into these weekly reports!