Brush-stroked cloud, Iowa City

A cloud like parallel dark paintbrush strokes.

Iowa Sunset

A lovely golden sunset.

Monarch Butterfly, Iowa City

Monarch butterfly on some daisy-like flowers.

Moth, Iowa City

The moth shows its long curled-up tongue.

Moth, Iowa City

Another perspective on the moth, showing how it is standing out in its perch.

Moth, Iowa City

A beautiful moth, chilling on some playground equipment.

Coleoptera, Cambridge, MA

Selection of Coleoptera (beetle) specimens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Lotus pod, Concord, MA

Lotus seedpod by the shore of the Concord wildlife reserve.

Ship hoist motors, Belfast, ME

Big cable-winding motors on the ship hoist.

Ship hoist, Belfast, ME

A massive ship-hoist in the Belfast shipyard, capable of picking sizable craft right up out of the water.

Mating pigeons, Belfast, ME

Mating pigeons by the Belfast docks.

Floral mailbox, Belfast, ME

Beautifully decorative floral mailbox.

Lobster trap seats, Belfast, ME

More lobster-trap chairs.

Lobster trap seat, Belfast, ME

Chair in a park, made out of a lobster trap.

Lobster pot fence, Belfast, ME

Fence decorated with the lobster pot buoys of many fishermen.

Punk dog, Belfast, ME

Dog with a bright purple mohawk down its body, wandering with its owner around the public boat auction in Belfast Maine.

Golfball Watertower, Southern Illinois

Driving home, a golf-ball water-tower in Rend Lake, Illinois.

Ripples above and ripples below, Sandestin, FL

Ripples in the clouds complement ripples in the water at the tail end of sunset.

A pitcher by the pier, Sandestin, FL

Sunset shining through a pitcher by the pier.

Golden shadows, Sandestin, FL

Golden shadows in a sunset reflection.

Ocean sunset, Sandestin, FL

Sun sinking into the ocean beyond Sandestin.

Ocean sunset, Sandestin, FL

Sunset, over on the ocean side of Sandestin.

Baytowne Wharf, Sandestin, FL

Reflecting lights of the Baytowne Wharf bridge at Sandestin.

Big pig boat, Sandestin, FL

I don't think there's any way to understand this as anything other than what it looks like.

Roof tiles awaiting deployment, Sandestin, FL

Re-roofing kit, deployed in stacks just awaiting workers to spread and attach it.

Summoning the painters, Sandestin, FL

Paint swatches outside of a condo at Sandestin, summoning painters to redo its exterior.

Sand dollar sign, Sandestin, FL

Symbols in the shape of a sand dollar adorn the walkways in Sandestin.

Heron on pollution boom, Sandestin, FL

Heron, lurking on a pollution control boom.

Wriggling path, Sandestin, FL

Why make a path straight, when it's so much more visually pleasant to have it slightly wriggling back and forth?

Uprising roots, Sandestin, FL

In many places in Sandestin, I saw trees whose roots rise up through the soil in little spikes all around them, a phenomenon I have never noticed before.

Pelicans, cormorants, and seagulls, Sandestin, FL

Quite a multi-species congregation of birds on the piers.

Birds in the fog, Sandestin, FL

Birds huddled on piling in the fog, off of the Sandestin docks.

Misty boardwalk, Sandestin, FL

Another mist-enshrouded walkway across the marshes.

Misty boardwalk, Sandestin, FL

A long boardwalk disappearing into the mist at Sandestin.

Marshland docks, Sandestin, FL

Docks, jutting out on long thin walkways through marshlands to bloom into nice platforms for their owners to lounge on at the ends.

Lizard, Sandestin, FL

A little lizard, skittering around on a wooden dock at Sandestin.

Heron, Sandestin, FL

Heron, stalking through the marshes on the edge of the bay in Sandestin.

Little grey bird, Sandestin, FL

Sandestin is mostly one big resort full of houses and golf courses, but there's also a lot of nature wedged into the edges there. While there, I spent a lot of time wandering around those edges in the early morning and late at night.

Kraken attack!, Destin, FL

In the middle of the Destin "whaling wall", the Kraken attacks!

Whaling wall, Destin, FL

On the Florida panhandle, coming down off a big bay-crossing bridge, one it greeted by an enormous "whaling wall" mural of marine life.

Washington DC at night

At night, the National Mall picked out as a dark gap in the lights of DC, stretching from Congress in the upper left to the Washington Monument and the White House in the lower right.

Terminal reflection, Boston, MA

More complex golden reflections in the windows of an airport terminal.

Boston jetbridge

Jetbridge and terminal gleaming gold together.

Terminal reflection, Boston, MA

Golden jet bridge reflections across great glass terminal windows in the golden rays of the setting sun.

East Boston docks

Docks picked out in liminal light during landing at Boston's Logan Airport.

Shadows of O'Hare

Busy travelers casting shadows in the early morning light of Chicago O'Hare.

Arching ceiling in O'Hare

Terminal G of O'Hare has a lovely series of cylindrical arching ceilings.

O'Hare Dawn

Silhouettes on the tarmac and the skyline as dawn grows over Chicago O'Hare.

Distortions from deicing

Another set of de-icing reflections channeling the morning light.

Distortions from deicing

Distorted light reflecting through the slowly oozing viscous de-icing fluid on an airplane's windows.