InnocenceIn the morning hours, on a dusty road in central India I came across this dainty new flower just awakening to an old world environment. Not yet stained with the dregs of experience, nor depleted by exposure to a midday sun, it bared itself as the very essence of purity and innocence.

but one of the main attractions is the chance to encounter one of the scattering of wild tigers residing in the area

a plant used by native Americans for basket weaving

The Great Wall of China disappears into early darkness brought on by weather and atmospheric conditions

Aside an agave stalk below Arizona's Black Hills a lightning is bolted to the earth and an eternal X marks the spot

A young grizzly bear in the Alaska wilderness seems to live up to the name but not the reputation of the nursery rhyme bear

there are only ten of the stacks remaining

"That's the most beautiful rainbow I've ever seen" she said as she graciously ignored my intrusion

Ancient Greek Orthodox monastaries built atop natural sandstone pillars are thrust heavenward from the northern reaches of the Plain of Thessaly

Pueblo remnants of a pre-Columbian culture abound in the well preserved architectural ruins found in a canyon cut by Chaco Wash and currently known as Chaco Culture National Historic Park

The evergreen conifer is native to the western reaches of North America and is scientifically not a fir tree at all

The sculpted temples date back a thousand years

A sand hillock tucked between the monuments has its own dominance