Nature's Collection

Photographs from around the world and free computer backgrounds. Select a photo collection from above.

Cloud Corner

Bamboo gate in Japanese garden

Japan Garden Gate

when a large mass of lava cools very slowly, it can create column-like fissures during it's cooling. then, over the years, water and ice push the columns apart and the outer pillars topple giving you a scene like this one. there's only a handful of places on earth where conditions were just right for these strange rock formations to form.

Basalt Evening

layers and layers of spire-shaped mountains in ZhangJiaJie

Mount TianZi 2

two female bears resting on a sandbar in the middle of a lake (Aleutian Islands).

Bear Lake

overlapping leaves on a young Sycamore Tree

Sycamore Leaves

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

Meerkat 2

My friend and master gardener was showing me the sites and we came across her favorite of all trees, the chionanthus virginicus, or fringe tree. In late spring it blooms with drooping clusters of white flowers. I now understand her passion for the tree as is had a very soft friendly appearance with a lovely scent from it's quantity of blooms.

Fringe Tree in Bloom

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