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| Colorful banding in the Badlands of South Dakota | It's always better to look a gift horse in the eye | A quiet corner on Big Horn Lake in Townsend, Wisconsin |
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| Clear Lake in Washington state. While walking barefoot along the shoreline, I stumbled, then fell into the lake. It was such a hot day...I decided to just keep swimming, dress and all........ | The waters of Crater Lake are perhaps the most beautiful blue in the world | Wizard Island in Crater Lake, Oregon |
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| A beautiful view of Crater Lake from the Grouse Hill overlook | He loves me.....he loves me not | Devil's Tower from the west as the sun was going down |
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| Time worn fishing dock on Little Horn Lake, Townsend, Wisconsin | Clouds casting shadows over Hells Canyon in Oregon | Wind-shorn tree overlooking Hells Canyon in Oregon |
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| Julienne Dubuque lies buried in this monument overlooking the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa | And the river runs to the sea - Kalaloch Lodge, Washington state | Micro-mini Lake Superior agates from Moose Lake, Minnesota. Micro-photography shows the exquisite bands of color in even the tinest agates |
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| A curious loon on Little Horn Lake, Townsend, Wisconsin | Mirror images on a tranquil McCaslin Creek in Townsend, Wisconsin | Fire colors in the west during a midwest sunset |
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| A blast of color as the midwest prepares itself for sleep | A painter's palette of colorful wildflowers along the 101 north of Brookings, Oregon | A forest zoo once existed where I stood to take this picture. Pelke's gas station was on the shore of the lake. We used to stop there on our way "up north" when I was a little girl |
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| Rabbit Rock is one of the beautiful otherworldly sandstone stands in southwestern Wisconsin in the "driftless" region that the glaciars could not reach | Double rainbows after a flash midwest thunderstorm | Two rivers collide here in Glide, Oregon |
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| Mount Rushmore on a clear summer's day | Old smokehouse in the backyard | Mid-day at the gateway to the west in St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Feathers and tiny fragile yellow flowers play counterpoint to the gray rocks on Stonefield Beach, Oregon | Storm over the Badlands | Gray skies could not even wash out the colors in the Badlands that day |
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| A moment later, after this flash thunderstorm, the soil in the Fairburn agate beds turned into sticky impossible "gumbo" | The sun struggles to spread its fingers through the storm as the waves comb the beach with their silver fingers at Kalaloch lodge in Washington state | Spring is never here until my back woods are carpeted in violets |
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| Pastel sunset at Wallowa Lake in Oregon. Moments later a shy deer came down the the water's edge to slake its thirst | A riverbed paints a monotone swath through the Wildhorse Sanctuary in South Dakota | The winds at the top of the headlands at Yaquina Bay belie this scene of tranquil solitude |