Intimate IrisAn Iris reveals its inmost delicacies as it unfolds allurements which will for the most part go unnoticed.

The town of Julian is a mountain retreat at about 4500 feet/1500 meters above the Pacific Coast and inland from the sea about 60 miles/100km

western Alaska

The flared granitic slope of Western Australia's Wave Rock reaches upward some fifteen meters (46 feet) but holds an eternal crest as it refuses to yield to gravity

A northern Arizona perspective of Monument Valley allows for a panorama of sandstone monuments of dramatic proportion

was encountered on the margins of a redwood forest along the Pacific Coast of California

An apple tree in blossom time

Osorno is an active volcano in the Los Lagos region of the southern Andes in Chile

Arizona's famous features for a moment of drama in the air

From ground level it appears to be an invading army

a transverse range of mountains dotted with oak trees and dividing the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert  in central California

An unusual avian mix to be found in the state of Arizona includes a Great Heron

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