Photo Researchers ftp March 2011

Single Occotillo (Fouquieria splendens) in bloom at Font's Point, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA.

Desert Lily ( Hesperocallis undulata), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA.

Patterns in Borrego Badlands as seen from Font's Point, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA.

Mudstone Hills of Golden Canyon, Death Valley, California, USA.

Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountain range reflected in Badwater Pools, salt flats stretchig beyond, 279 feet below sea level, Badwater, Death Vall...

Red Lyons Sandstone formations & Autumn color, Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Red Lyons Sandstone rock formation, Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Pikes Peak as seen from the Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

North & South Gateway Rocks with Oak & Rocky Mountain Juniper, Red Lyons Sandstone, Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Arkansas River at Hayden Meadow, Colorado.

New snow blankets Ruby Mountains from Kebler Pass. Colorado.

Using stored energy, Avalanche Lilies melt their way up through high-elevation snowpacks in spring. They bloom long before any other wildflowers in or...

An almost full moon at sunset on Pool Table Mountain Road above Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado.

Henson Creek flows from Engineer Pass toward Lake City. Hinsdale, CO.

Colorado - Aspens paint a mountainside in rivers of gold and orange along the San Juan Skyway.

Colorado - Anglers fish the Colorado River near Parshall, one of the state's great fishing reaches.

Colorado - Colorado River near Parshall.

Colorado - View from Smith Mesa of Colorado River Valley in fog at sunrise.

Colorado - Blue River near confluence of Colorado River with the Gore range in the background.

Colorado - Tamarisk, an invasive and nonnative shrub that grows so densely it can dry up whole desert creeks and rivers, shows its beautiful sife in a...

Colorado - Cottonwood and tamarisk (a non-native invasive plant) show their beautiful side in autumn near the town of Mack in Mesa County, Colorado

Colorado - The top of Grand Mesa is studded with lakes, including this pond off the Lands End road.

Colorado - Irrigated farms dominate Wright's Mesa around Norwood. Lone Cone, a solitary volcanic cone that is the westernmost peak of the San Juan Mo...

Colorado - a dead juniper punctuates the panoramic view of the Four Corners region from Knife Point.

Colorado - An abandoned frame building, roof stripped of most of its shingles by wind and weather, is surrounded by a field of winter wheat near Grove...

Colorado - A field of Red Sorrel (buckwheat family) in autumn on the South Platte River Trail near Ovid.

Colorado - Perky Sue (Tetraneuris sp.) sprouts in such abundance in wet springs that it colors whole swaths of shortgrass prairie, here along the Sant...

Colorado - Walking-stick cactus blooms in bursts of magenta in summer, relying on water stored in its succulent stems, just as foxtails barley and oth...

Colorado - Quaking aspen leaves lose their chlorophyll, the green pigment that helps them produce food from sunlight, as they die in fall. The more s...

Colorado - Dried mullein stalks poke above grass and rabbitbrush in an autumn-colored meadow.

Colorado - a stand of pines surrounded by sleeping aspens in winter.

Colorado - Fossilized tracks of ancient dinosaurs show clearly in the sandstone of Dinosaur Ridge, outside Morrison, Colorado.

Colorado - Fossilized tracks of ancient dinosaurs show clearly in the sandstone of Dinosaur Ridge, outside Morrison, Colorado.

Colorado - Red Rocks State Park near Morrison, Colorado.

Colorado - Bear Creek begins in Summit Lake on Mount Evans and rushes downhill through the foothills, dropping nearly 7,100 feet in just over thirty m...

Colorado - Sulphur-yellow mustard blooms in spring near grazing llamas on the way to Florissant Fossil Beds.

Colorado - The curving ridges visible in the hay meadow are contours built to prevent the fine soils of these high-elevation meadows from eroding and...

Colorado - The Long Wall, one of many volcanic dikes that radiates out from Spanish Peaks.

Colorado - Quaking aspen clones splash vivid colors across the mountainside near Cuchara Pass.

Colorado - When sunlight travels through a spherical water drop, the ray's components are refracted through the upper and lower portions of the drop w...

Colorado - Trail Ridge Road winds through alpine tundra above Fall Creek with Long's Peak in the distance.

Colorado - A river of frost-shattered rock pushes up through alpine tundra near Rock Cut.

Colorado - The headwaters of the Cache la Poudre River on Milner Pass.

Colorado - This rocky crag points the way to Long's Peak from Rock Cut.

Colorado - Sunlight strikes peaks near St. Mary's Glacier behind a virga, a curtain of rain evaporating before it hits the ground.

Colorado - Blooming Angelica, also known as water hemlock, on Ripple Creek Pass with the Flat Tops in the background.

Colorado - Aspen leaf pattern after a fall rain.

Colorado - Cottonwood trees line upper Medano Creek where it flows along the southeast edge of Great Sand Dunes. 'Medano' is Spanish for 'dunes'.

A wine field in the Tuscany region of Italy.

A wine field in the Tuscany region of Italy.