Fiery Hawk

Fiery HawkFirst light casts its red rays on a burned out tree and the awakening hawk which crowns it. The evergreen oak had been subjected to a forest fire which decimated large areas of natures woodland, while leaving pockets of trees without any traces of the burn, California.

La Boca is a neighborhood of Buenos Aires

lupine surrounds a patch of sleeping poppies on the shady side of the hill while they await the sun to wake them

Two people enjoying a refreshing waterfall in Mondulkiri Province in western Cambodia

The monumental sandstone known as Cathedral Rock receives a mid-summer lightning strike as a monsoonal storm comes to an end in beautiful Sedona

Fallen conifer cones overpower springtime dainties on the forest floor of the world's largest stand of Ponderosa pine

Powerscourt statuary

Nampeyo of Hopi

Baobabs are often bulbous or quite stout with relatively short tortuous branches

cap-rock statuary can sometimes titillate a fanciful imagination

This double rainbow  jumped out of the gloom for just short minutes in northern Great Britain as I was moving along a narrow country lane

an occasional sighting may be had of an odd floral delight known as Sturt's Desert Pea

A low cloud prodded by westerly breezes passes through an ancient corridor known simply by what it is: The Grand Canyon