Looks like these two are watching each others' back preparing for a mission.

northern shore of Guam

distant wall of sandstone in warm evening light (Utah wilderness)

aerial view of clouds forming over Gulf of Mexico

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).

hiking through Waimea canyon on Kauai

This dusty miller plant would look right at home as an underwater sea plant on a coral reef, but is actually a nice terrain-based plant with velvety-soft leaves.

i'm no giraffe expert, but i think the left one wants a kiss.