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

Milkweed seeds emerge and blow away in late September at Marsh Creek State Park

Red Maple, Acer rubrum, leaves and samaras, awakening in April in central Michigan, USA

Ceiling collapsed on ice cave, created where stream melts snow under a snowfield, on Heliotrope Ridge on the slopes of Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

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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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Columnar basalt formations along Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach in Iceland

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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