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The Lumix Years - 2020
Colorado's Ripple Creek Pass through the Flattop Mountains is home to fields of knee-high wildflowers.
Wading birds look for tidbits among the salty crystals that form along the banks of the Salton Sea.
The wooly flowers of the pasque flower or anemone protect the delicate reproductive organs inside.
Rainwater flowing across this tilted sandstone has left the surface fluted in an intricate pattern.
Elephant seals spend almost all their time at sea so shore leave with a snooze on the beach is perfect.
Owachomo Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument is one of the oldest and thinnest in the park.
Far above the Goosenecks of the San Juan, Muley Point affords an excellent view of Monument Valley.
It takes many rains to soften the cracks from last year's dry season. A lone grass survives.
Spring rains in California give the tiny spring grasses a chance to send up their first tentative shoots.
Different ages of deposition have left this rainbow of sandstones near the ghost town of Paria, Utah.
Winter brings a blanket of snow to the high peaks of Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
The Hovenweep people who built these watchtowers and granaries have been gone for a thousand years.
Long forgotten seas still leave their colorful imprint on the landscape of southern Utah.
It turns out, places besides Arizona also have sunsets. This one in Nevada is particularly peaceful.
Moonrise over this unnamed tarn on Buffalo Pass in Colorado is reflected in the still water.