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For this Thursday's Task let's do fog. One of the best areas to do fog is during the fall in Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor, ME Here are a few from a foggy fall morning there. Bar Harbor Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, ME Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, ME...

This is a photomicrograph of a thin section of biotite schist magnified ten times. I put the thin section on the stage under the 10x objective and then put a tube that I can attach the camera to into the body tube where the eyepiece goes and focus it. Photomicrographs of this type open a whole...

This is a piece of petrified wood from Petrified Forest National Park that has been cut and polished. It is from my personal collection. I just photographed it this morning for a friend who is contemplating buying some of his own. All of the colors are various states of oxidized iron except...

Those bright colorful crystals are olivine (peridot) in a thin section under a microscope.

Just finished processing these two images from my stash of Shore Acres State Park, Coos Bay, OR

These leaves with raindrops on their surfaces formed an interesting pattern on he lichen covered rock. I have noticed that drops do not form on the top surfaces of leaves and I have often wondered why.

Map to some of he moe famous waterfalls in the U.P. of Michigan. Tahquamenon Falls State Park Paradise, MI This park has beautiful stands of sugar maples and birches that compliment the beauty of the falls and the Tahquamenon River. Upper Tahquamenon Falls Lower Tahquamenon Falls...

Porcupine Mountain Wilderness State Park, MI Silver City MI This is a beautiful area of hills, lakes and streams and in the fall of the year it can be spectacular. Fall color usually starts during the month of September and carries on into the first weeks of October. Here is a map of the...

The upper peninsula of Michigan is a spectacular place to photograph during the fall season. It has birches, red maples, and sugar maples providing glorious colors in beautiful landscapes. Fall color begins to peak away from Lake Superior in higher elevations the last week of September and...

Butterfly-weed is one of thee most beautiful of all prairie plants. Here is a striking example that contrasts nicely with the deep green of the gasses during a wet summer. Also present in tis image are Coreopsis (yellow), Spiderwort (purple), and Porcupine Grass (the light colored grass)...

Let's post images that represent ancient North American cultures. This petroglyph site is called the Hunting Panel in Nine Mile Canyon near Price, UT There are more than 10,000 petroglyphs in this canyon. This is the Mountain Lion Panel. It now resides in the Visitor Center Museum in...