I am going to guess this is Nymphalis californica California Tortoiseshell
based on it's shape and georaphical distribution with thanks to Flickr member aullori in help identifying this. This is in the Nymphalidae or family of brush-footed butterflies

Nymphalis californica California Tortoiseshell

Disporum hookeri

Hooker's fairy bells Prosartes hookeri formerly Disporum

Karen Sykes's review in Seattle PI 13 May 1999
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I am going to guess this is Nymphalis californica California Tortoiseshell
based on it's shape and georaphical distribution with thanks to Flickr member aullori in help identifying this. This is in the Nymphalidae or family of brush-footed butterflies

Nymphalis californica California Tortoiseshell

Hooker's fairy bells Prosartes hookeri formerly Disporum

About the Baker river hike
Karen Sykes's review in Seattle PI 13 May 1999
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Big Leaf Maple - Schmitz Park

Mechanism of Order

"But physics and other sciences tend to represent
certain things for us as mechanisms. This gives us
a partial picture of some kinds of order. That is all.
We may take, for instance, the structure of a leaf...

The stems of the leaf support its membranes,
which hold the cells which receive sunlight,
and transform the enegy of the sunlight into
materials from which the leaf can grow.

What is the order which physics helps us talk about
in each of these cases? It is only the mechanical order.

But what of the order itself? The order itself - that
order which exists in a leaf,... - a harmonoius order
that fills us and touches us - this order cannot be
represented as a mechanism. Yet it is this harmony,
this aspect of order, which impresses us and moves us
as we see the world."

The Nature of Order ,
Book One: The Phenomenom of Life
by Christopher Alexander

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Leaves opposite, serrated.

Urtica dioica Stinging Nettle
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Hamamelididae
Order Urticales
Family Urticaceae – Nettle family
Genus Urtica L. – nettle
Species Urtica dioica L. – stinging nettle

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Formica obscuripes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formicidae

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Suborder: Apocrita

Superfamily: Vespoidea

Family: Formicidae
Latreille, 1809

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