CRAB APPLE CANDY NORTHERN CARDINAL (CARDINALIS CARDINALIS) With the colors of this

With the colors of this July sunrise appearing just before the sun touches the horizon

The overnight snowfall creates this patterned lake as the morning suns first light illuminates Wildflower Lake

I gazed out over the landscape and this scene of wildflowers made up of blue vervain

false sunflowers

The mallard duck is also called greenhead by some and is 1 of the most common ducks in the northern hemisphere

CRAB APPLE CANDY NORTHERN CARDINAL (CARDINALIS CARDINALIS) With the colors of thisA winter scene of Icicles dangle beneath frozen crab apples after a freezing rain storm passes through the night before in Northern Illinois at Wildflower Park. (531 177)