Wild raspberry bushes in northern Indiana

these large birds appear to have infinite patience as they stand motionless for hours waiting for their meal to swim by.

ruffle and stripe details on a giant Bearded Iris

this is a shot of the massive amounts of water going over Niagara Falls (Canadian side).

since we did not get the chance to place one of our camera's onto NASA's deep space probe, we went with the next best thing... we photographed a piece of tile from Home Depot. yes, this is looking at only 0.4% of a 3/4-inch piece of glass tile that to the naked eye, looks clear dark brown (like coca-cola) with gold glitter streaking through. zooming in, revealed the gold specs to be sharply formed pyramids that reflected light very well. as the glitter streaked through the depths of the tile, it resembled an asteroid field with more colour and beauty than if we went with the NASA probe (mission accomplished).

JiuZhaiGou Valley, China

east end of Glacier National Park

I am a personal fan of lots of foliage. I maintain several quite large house plants but they just don't compare to standing amongst a rain-forest. This was captured along the way to Hanna, a remote southern town on Maui.