Pistacia Mosaic

Pistacia MosaicChinese pistache leaves bunch up along the banks of a pond and create a mosaic of color.

One can imagine that it was very gratifying to witness this early morning visitor approach to quench its thirst in the wilds of the southern continent

or The Treasury

Skagit Valley

Water originating in the Two Oceans Plateau of Wyoming forms part of the Snake River

These Washingtonia filifera palms are the exclusive native palm variety growing naturally in the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwest United States

Aspen color blends with evergreens and frothy whites of leaping water as Bear Creek cascades downslope neighboring Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway

Water in the Little River plummets more than 100 feet in the Alabama landscape and has been named DeSoto Falls after the Spanish explorer

Two-hundred year old beech trees have come to be known as the Dark Hedges of Northern Ireland

Ten penguins occupy their own island paradise as it floats off the Antarctic coast

(Abha na Sionainne in Irish) pours into Shannon Estuary which iself is some 100 kilometers long

an occasional sighting may be had of an odd floral delight known as Sturt's Desert Pea

Naturalist photographer Greg Lawson’s California image collection conjures up just such a possibility with page after page of Golden State imagery featuring flora and fauna along with landscapes and seascapes with little visible impact by the footprint of man