EPOW - Ecology Picture of the Week

The Next Turn

Cliffs, Ice Fields, Clouds
Andes Mountains, Argentina

Explanation:  Here we are, world, in the Next Turn of our precious little globe around our stellar source of energy and heat and light.  

How fragile is this shell that we cling to.  

To honor the endless diversity of our world, and that all is circular in life and death and renewal, I offer this year-end compilation of "planetary" imagery taken from some of my global explorations.  

Please enjoy -- and cherish -- the diversity.

A "bil" or wetland, with a "tree of life."
Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

Bunya pines (Araucaria bidwillii) in grazed pasture with cows.
Queensland, Australia.

Snowfield and conifer forest.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA.

Dredged portion of John Day River.
Eastern Oregon, USA

Lesser Flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor).
Lake Nakuru, Kenya, Africa
(Explored in a previous EPOW episode.)

Opuntia echios var. echios.
Plazas Island, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Arid vegetation in rainshadow of Mount Kenya.
Tanzania.

Compression ridge, sea ice slab, 12 miles out on the Arctic Ocean.
Alaska, USA.

Vermillion Cliffs with California Condor reintroduction site.
Arizona, USA.

"The Mote In God's Eye"
Sunset, Medford, Oregon USA