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

November 27, 2025

The Mill Pond

Rockport, Massachusetts

Cape Ann - USA

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Forest reflections on a pond in Canadian Lakes, Michigan, USA

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Cross-country ski tracks descending down a hill on a golf course in central Michigan, USA

Natural sandstone patterns near Moon House Ruin on Cedar Mesa, once part of Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, USA

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

Surface curtains of ice on the cliffs of Tettegouche State Park, where Lake Superior waves crash against the rock, leaving a layer of water that freezes, along the North Shore of Minnesota, USA

Tar Spot, Ralfsia pacifica, a brown algae found intertidally at Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Coleman Glacier on Heliotrope Ridge below Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

Navajo Sandstone shaped like cauliflower, cracked into polygons, at White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

taken on 31/12/2011 using a fujifilm finepix S3200

Rock patterns ade by intrusions at Lottie Point beach area in Deception Pass State Park, Fidalgo Island, Washington State, USA

Hamma Hamma Living Legacy Trail dedicated to the accomplishments of the CCC Boys during the Great Depression, Olympic National Forest, Washington State, USA,

Tree branches, graphic against a background of fog in central Michigan, USA

Early light on Pinyon Pine on Navajo Sandstone shaped like cauliflower, cracked into polygons, at White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Saguaro

Surging Pacific Ocean surf viewed from a high vantage point on East Anacapa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA

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

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Sea urchin test (shell) at Tongue Point in Salt Creek Recreation Area along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Layered sandstone formations in White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Layered sandstone formations in White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Sunlit leaf in Gran Canaria

At the lake before the storm.

Shadows of a shrub in snow in the village of Flateyri along Önundarfjörður (fjord) in the Westfjords of Iceland

Bit tricky with a point and shoot.

I think of horror movies when I see large trees with moss hanging. I'm not sure why.

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