This lovely scene was captured at a place in Yellowstone National Park known as Hellroaring. I have watched wolves and grizzly bears through a spotting scope from this high overlook. On the morning this picture was taken, there were no animals in sight, but my guide and I were treated to this colorful sunrise, along with some ground fog in the valley.
This face belongs to one of the non-releasable grizzly bears that lives at the Montana Grizzly Encounter near Bozeman, MT.
The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. It was built in honor of the Roman senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaenus between 110 A.D. and 117 A.D. by Celsus' son The library reportedly was one of the most impressive buildings in the Roman empire.
Built to hold 12,000 scrolls, it also serves as a mausoleum for Celsus, who is buried in a crypt under the building. The Library of Celsus was the third largest library of the ancient world, after only those at Alexandria, Egypt, and Pergamum, Turkey. Only the front facade still stands.
This colorful image was taken inside a large Catholic church in Managua, Nicaragua. I like the colors and the repeating patterns.
These three equestrians rode their horses down a beach in Nicaragua on a hot day. They rode a short distance, then turned around and headed back toward the restaurant where I was having lunch. They stopped, two dismounted, and they then returned with a beer for each rider.
Ravens are incredibly intelligent birds, able to open zippers to get at food inside. This Yellowstone raven saw me get a small package of trail mix out of the SUV in which I was traveling and immediately flew to a couple of feet from where I was standing.
Knowing the problems people cause by feeding wildlife, I didn't share the trail mix with this handsome bird.
This photo was taken with an 18-135 mm lens as the bird waited on the ground. I like the detail on the face, and the bit of snow in the beak.
A bull bison's face is coated with snow after using its massive head to sweep away deep snow as it searches for grass in Yellowstone National Park.
Bison coats insulate them so well that snow that falls on the coat doesn't melt, so small is the amount of heat that escapes from the body. Bison can survive temperatures as low as -30 F with little or no discomfort. The dead grass beneath the snow is brown and has little nutritional value.
The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. It was built in honor of the Roman senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaenus between 110 A.D. and 117 A.D. by Celsus' son The library reportedly was one of the most impressive buildings in the Roman empire. 
These three equestrians rode their horses down a beach in Nicaragua on a hot day. They rode a short distance, then turned around and headed back toward the restaurant where I was having lunch. They stopped, two dismounted, and they then returned with a beer for each rider.
A bull bison's face is coated with snow after using its massive head to sweep away deep snow as it searches for grass in Yellowstone National Park.