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Wind-blasted snow clinging to a Sugar Maple and other trees after a winter storm in Mecosta County, Michigan, USA

Sunflower 2. Things that I saw at the Norfolk, VA Zoo. Photography by Donna Corless.

Also known as Crested Iris [Iris japonica]

repetition of lines ..

with a Florida blue sky canvas ..

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First light on the Navajo Sandstone formations of White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Canadian Lakes, Michigan, USA

Still no snow, but the pond froze this morning. At this rate, we'll be skating before we're making snowmen. LOL!

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Patterns of pancake ice on the nearshore saltwater off Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada

Intricate boxwork in Wind Cave, a cave formation found here more than anywhere else, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, USA

Patterns of snow on frozen surface of Dead River in February in Marquette County, Michigan, USA

City Park Lake, Baton Rouge.

Deck rail scalloped by the sine wave undulations of an Eastern Gray Squirrel in winter in central Michigan, USA

Ice crystals in winter along the South Coast of Iceland

Fallen American Beech, Fagus grandifolia, leaves in the Ott Biological Preserve, Calhoun County, Michigan, USA

Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, pattern of exposed wood where bark has fallen off, near Stella Lake along the Alpine Lakes Loop Trail in the Snake Range of Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

Tree on a foggy day in a farm field in Mecosta County, Michigan, USA

Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides, forest of bare branches along beginning of Wheeler Peak Summit Trail in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

Rippled surface of Cispus River in Cispus Basin within the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington State, USA

Clifton Grove, Nottingham SK5435

Rippled stone along Wheeler Peak Summit Trail in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

Closeup of spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Karen Rentz behind the spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Bubbles, created in winter by the photographer, rapidly form ice crystals on the inside surfaces, Michigan, USA,

Small waterfall along the Dungeness River in, near the Upper Dungeness Trail in Olympic National Forest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

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Ice formed on branches above Mitchell Creeks after a freezzing night in April in Clay Cliffs Nature Area in Big Rapids, Michigan, USA