Waves and sunlight in Lake Jackson near Sebring, FL

Abstract image of koi in the Japanese Gardens in Portland, OR

Trunks of saw palmetto after a burn at Archbold Biological Station

Bracken fern

Abstract of rosary pea, an invasive exotic vine throughout Florida

Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides) skeletons in oak scrub after a fire

Field of phlox and dried grasses near Thontassasa, FL

Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides) skeletons and a plametto frond in recently burned scrub, Archbold Biological Station

New ice over grass in the creek, Pittsboro NC

Light and patterns on a palmetto frond

Moth caterpillar, probably in the family Noctuidae, but species unidentifed.

Close-up of the disk flowers of a purple coneflower. The flower was just opening thus the stamens had not yet emerged from the corolla tubes.

Sensual folds of a cypress tree deep in a Florida swamp

Fire burns through palmetto leaves during a prescrbed fire in oak scrub of central Florid

Ghostly skeletons of burned shrubs emerge from the smoke after a prescribed fire in central Florida

The cool-hot image relfects the ying and yang of fire. It is a critical ecological process, but can have disasterous short-term consequences when innapropriately appied

Beach erosion on Point Loma near San Diego, California

Cracks and salt patterns in the mud of Clark Dry Lake in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California

Alligator smile