Apple TreeAn apple tree in blossom time, Julian, California. The town of Julian is a mountain retreat at about 4500 feet 1500 meters above the Pacific Coast and inland from the sea about 60 miles 100km. Historically it was founded by mining prospectors, but today is a tourist town know for its apple orchards and apple treats.

Tens of thousands of basalt columns stand shoulder to shoulder to make up the Giants Causeway of County Antrim in Northern Ireland

The little fishing village of Reine shines in the land of the midnight sun

Ferns are an iconic and historic New Zealand element and native Maori peoples found numerous uses for them in daily life

reds and oranges of of late October

The head of the Great Sphinx of Egypt which serves as sentry for the Pyramid of Khufu is here surrounded by ancient elements including the acclaimed pyramid

Meteorological conditions range from bone-chilling fog on the north coast to bone-dry aridity in the southeast deserts

On the Southern border it aligns with Baja California and Sonora in Mexico

grows in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert and has attractive flowers followed by yellow fruit located on the top of the plant

not only Arizona

Face to face with a large elephant in interior fringes of the Ngorogoro Crater of East Africa

this natural arch in the Alabama Hills of California's Eastern Sierra has been tagged as Mobius Arch

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