as the snow accumulates in the high mountains, it stacks up and begins to slide down the mountain side as a glacier. as the glacier continues to get pushed from behind (from more incoming snow), it becomes packed into a very dense ice and can travel decades across the country side. sometimes they end by finally giving way to the heat, and turn into a stream of icy cold water. other times they end by crumbling into an ocean like this one.

White Peacock butterfly in southern Florida.

Below ground caverns in Arizona wilderness, carved out by centuries of flash flood waters from rain many miles away.

a single blade of grass supporting 3 drops of rain

sunset over the many islands in northwestern Washington

Trying not to sound like an advertisement for tripods, but I really love my Benbo Trekker. It is an extremely well engineered piece of British equipment and is the only tripod that has accommodated every place I have desired to place a camera. For this photo, I'm set up between the seats on a 737 so I could capture this through the window.

curious young brown bear in late spring (Aleutian Islands)

foliage on the tropical island of Guam