South Africa's False Bay

South Africa's False BayWeather movement south of Capetown is observed from the east coast of False Bay, South Africa.

Monarch butterflies hibernating in string formation in a eucalyptus grove in rural Southern California

and influence The Lone Star State is in fact a world leader

Red leaves of fall double their impact when mirrored in the Housatonic River

Award-winning world photographer Greg Lawson's intuitive eye for all things natural sweeps from the Gulf of Mexico through the Hill Country

High in the Huangshan Mountains of eastern China's Anhui province is a stone figure forever admiring the landscape panorama

The ten-thousand foot (3400 meter) altitude hosts some of the oldest specimens of wood in the world and some of the living specimens here have endured for thousands of years

cool and fascinating caverns have been tucked into earthen skirts

North Dakota

and Vince Fazio

A grizzly bear casts a backward glance as it emerges empty-mouthed from a fishing mission in an Alaskan stream

Theodore Roosevelt were carved into granites of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore in the early twentieth century

Baobabs live for hundreds of years