The feature image is an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly that was visiting our garden.

This post is in response to TERRI WEBSTER SCHRANDT Sunday Stills challenge that is being hosted by Cathy Ryan of Picture This for the month of August – This Week is Nature.

Nature is a broad realm of the natural, physical and material things existing in our world and/or universe. It is a wide spectrum of living and non-living entities. For me, it is all about wildlife and the planet we call home. There is so much to explore that we can’t see it all in a lifetime, but I can share a few things that I have experienced in my few years on Earth.

Eastern United States

Bumble bee fluttering into a Mexican Petunia in our yard. Pollination is an absolute must for the survival of the natural world.

Eat or be eaten! Blue-gray Gnatcatcher with a dragonfly in its beak. Lunchtime!

Total solar eclipse in August, 2017. We travelled to South Carolina to be in the path of the eclipse and was not disappointed at all! One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in nature.

Red-shouldered Hawk perched up on a Cedar snag. The spots in the image were very close to my lens (dragonflies). It’s an optical illusion that they were near the snag. We were getting swarmed by them, which means, we were getting eaten up by mosquitoes.

Western United States

This should be one of the natural wonders of the world, Artists Palette located in Death Valley is a breathtaking spot to sit and contemplate one’s life.

This is a Beavertail Cactus at Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jack Rabbit in the desert at Death Valley National Park.

2017 – Frank & Me on our honeymoon heading into Death Valley for the first time.