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Several kinds of lichen on an old steel drum in Hecla hamlet, Hecla Provincial Park, Manitoba.

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Birch trees on the shore of Gull Harbour, Lake Winnipeg, Hecla Provincial Park, Hecla, Manitoba.

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Waves crashing to shore beside the pier in Gimli Harbour, Gimli, Manitoba.

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Morning mist rising off of a small lake on the Trans Canada Highway near Wawa, Ontario.

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Icy log across Decew Creek below Decew Falls, St Catherine’s Ontario.

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Bluestone Dam on the New River in Bellepoint, West Virginia.  This was the last picture I took on my 2016 camping trek.

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Raystown Hydroelectric dam on the Raystown Branch Janita River, near Huntington PA.

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Early sunrise from Pipestem State Park Lookout Tower, Pipestem State Park, near Pipestem, West Virginia.

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Softly lit rock under Linn Cove Viaduct, Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina.

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Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina.  One must scramble a bit to get this view, but that’s half the fun!

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Before the sunrise on a misty morning.  A soybean field on the side of Great River Road (US Highway 52/60/64) just outside of Wickliffe Kentuky.

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Whorled Milkweed, Asclepias verticillata near the Kansas/Oklahoma border near Wichita, Kansas.

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An unknown wildflower at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, near Stone City Kansas.  I tried to figure out what this little fellow was, but couldn’t!

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Pitcher sage, Salvia azurea and prairie iron weed, Vernonia fasciculata, in Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, near Strong City, Kansas.  Cerulean is pretty much my favourite flower colour.

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Summer clouds and wild grasses in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City Kansas.  A swelteringly hot day, but very much worth the hike through the preserve, many prairie flowers I’d never seen before!

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Gloaming light overlooking West Bottoms and Kansas City, Kansas, from Ermine Case Junior Park, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Old deadwood on the forest floor near Lye Brook Falls, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont.  The forest floor smelt just as brown and leafy as this picture looks!