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A gorgeous golden morning with fog lifting from Moose Falls on Crawfish Creek in Yellowstone National Park. The world seemed warm and enveloping, rich, vibrant, and especially colorful.Towers in the Wind Rivers Range, Wyoming.Dance of the Dead Trees, Part 1. Five-hundred-year-old trees in front of a tremendous dune in the middle of the Namib Desert. A mirage at ground level creates a mirror image of some of the sand and bushes.Dance of the Dead Trees, Part 2. Five-hundred-year-old trees surrounded by dunes in the middle of the Namib Desert.A black sand beach in Dominica with a waterfall cascading from the jungle above. I had to work for this one with a climb down the wet cliffs. At one point I was 50 feet in the air resting on a cocoa tree branch with thirty pounds of camera gear on my back looking down onto the crashing surf thinking, A wild elephant ear leaf covered in morning dew. Nicaraguan rainforest.A bee collects nectar from a wild choke cherry bloom.The Christmas cactus produces an out-sized red flower tenuously held at the end of a long chain of green cactus pads. The plant's name comes from its tendency to bloom in December rather than from the obvious color match. The long curled chain of pads can be hypnotizing, like a path of stepping stones that needs to be followed to its gorgeous end.A wild black-eyed susan, just beginning to flower. Colorado.Budding star. Thistle near Nederland, Colorado.Orange burst, from an indian paintbrush in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Pink burst, from an indian paintbrush in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.

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