Rough textured bark on the trunk of a tree.
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Strange lava formations near Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, Maui.
Maui island, Hawaii.
Purple coral with yellow tentacles. I believe this is plate coral, a large polyp stony (LPS) coral often referred to as a Disk, Mushroom, Chinaman, Fungia Plate, or Tongue Coral.
Maui Ocean Center
This lumpy bumpy strange red sea creature is called a frogfish.
Maui Ocean Center
Grand Canyon Supergroup - Hotauta conglomerate - 1,200 million year old rock
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Painted Desert within the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
Painted Desert within the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
Petrified wood appears as colorful stone.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Grand Canyon Supergroup - Hakatai Sandstone - 1,180 million year old rock.
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Petrified wood appears as colorful stone.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Bright yellow-green leaves against a dark black background.
Filoli, Woodside, California
Bright yellow-green leaves against a clear blue sky.
Filoli, Woodside, California
Flowers, leaves and moss growing on a brick wall.
Filoli, Woodside, California
Closeup of spiky green and red leaves on a bush resembling holly (though I'm not sure that's what it is).
Filoli, Woodside, California
A strange alien-looking red succulent plant grows on a scrubby coastal region.
Cambria, California
Dried thistles against a pale brown background.
Cambria, California
A closeup of a brown and white pinto horse's mane.
A dog's paw print in the wet beach sand.
Morro Bay, California
Dried and cracked mud.
Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
Macro of orange plants. This photo was taken by Geneva Hudspeth and put in the Creative Commons with her permission.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Creamy colors blend with orange, red, yellow, mauve, green and blue in this textured landscape. This photo was taken by Geneva Hudspeth and put in the Creative Commons with her permission.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Creamy colors blend with orange, red, yellow, mauve, green and blue in this textured landscape. This photo was taken by Geneva Hudspeth and put in the Creative Commons with her permission.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Lovely marsh muck.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Lovely marsh muck.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Paw prints (probably raccoon) in dried mud.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Paw prints (probably raccoon) and bird tracks in dried mud.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Paw prints (probably raccoon) in dried mud.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Paw prints (probably raccoon) and bird tracks in dried mud.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Three slivers of light peek through the boardwalk onto the crusted and cracked salt mud.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Human shoeprints circle in the mud of a salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Footprints in the mud of a salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Succulents grow in strangely textured earth left behind by a dry salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Salt beds form a strange landscape.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
These plants on the salt marsh resemble something one might find underwater.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Can you see the jackrabbit? He's decently camouflaged.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Macro of orange plants.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
The shoreline of a murky green marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
A natural pink salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Macro of a natural pink salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Macro of a natural pink salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Macro of a natural salt marsh.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Macro of natural salt.
Alviso Salt Marshes, Don Edward San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
A tight cluster of thin red-orange seaweed at the beach.
Morro Bay, California, USA
A tight cluster of thin red-orange seaweed at the beach.
Morro Bay, California, USA
A tight cluster of thin red-orange seaweed at the beach.
Morro Bay, California, USA
Macro of a sunlit spider web (sans spider).
Santa Clara, California, USA
Macro of a sunlit spider web (sans spider).
Santa Clara, California, USA
A wall of wine bottles, with dusty bottles in the foreground.
Korbel Champagne Cellars, Guerneville, California, USA
A strangely shaped tufa tower at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Tufa tower at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Tufa towers at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Birds perch atop a tufa tower at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Tufa towers at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Tufa towers at Mono Lake.
Mono Lake, California, USA
Pine tree needles and bark.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Colorful rough-textured rock.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Colorful rough-textured rock.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Broken rocks colored with lichen near a lake.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Broken rocks colored with lichen near a lake.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Broken rocks colored with lichen near a lake.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A tadpole with legs in the shallow water of TJ Lake or Lake Barrett (not sure which).
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A white mushroom on a fallen tree near Mammoth Lakes.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A white mushroom on a fallen tree near Mammoth Lakes.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A dead tree near Horseshoe Lake.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
An old decrepit abandoned building in the toxic dead tree zone near Mammoth Mountain. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
An old decrepit abandoned building in the toxic dead tree zone near Mammoth Mountain. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A log in the middle of a cracked boulder.
Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
A simple line of bird tracks in wet beach sand.
Morro Bay, California, USA