Smoke on the water. Dense wildfire smoke from Canada permeates the atmosphere above Lake Michigan near Muskegon. The sky was clear blue earlier in the day. #smoke #canadianwildfires #beach #lakemichigan #muskegon #sun #summer #michigan

Butterfly Weed in the golden hour. In rural Wood County, OH. #sunset #wildflower #nature #ohio

Painted sky tonight. Near Portage, OH along the Slippery Elm Trail. #sunset #sky #clouds #nature #rural #ohio

Afterglow on a summer’s eve. Last night along the Slippery Elm Trail in Rudolph, OH. #sunset #nature #rural #ohio

Robins resting. A pair of Robins pause on fence posts at sunset. #birds #rural #nature #sunset #ohio

Putting the day to rest. This evening along the Maumee River at sunset, soft clouds drifted overhead catching the warm light. #sunset #nature #maumeeriver #ohio

Teasel and the moon. As the sun was setting the moon was rising on a warm evening along the Slippery Elm Trail in Northwestern Ohio. #moon #teasel #nature #ohio

The trail ahead. The view as the sun set across a field of drying wheat along the slippery Elm Trail in rural Wood County, OH, last evening. #sunset #sky #rural #clouds #nature #ohio

Feast for a Fritillary. Spotted today at the Penney Nature Center near Defiance, OH. #butterfly #nature #ohio

Thistle and storms at sunset. From early June in rural Wood County, OH. #sunset #nature #plants #clouds #sky #ohio

Dusty sunset. A cloud of dust from farm machinery operating in the field near the horizon mimics the hazy clouds above that mute the colors of the in the sky from the setting sun beyond.

Deadly sunset. A flowering hemlock takes in the final rays of the day from a setting sun over the flat fields of Northwest Ohio. #sunset #plants #hemlock #sky #nature #ohio

Gone with a puff of wind. The seed head of a giant dandelion. #nature #plants #giantdanelion #blackandwhite

Winds of change. A dark cloud bank overtakes the setting sun tonight in Northwest Ohio. #sunset #clouds #sky #nature #ohio

Far off storms. This evening the setting sun cast warm light on thunderstorms 50 miles to the South in Northwest Ohio along the Slippery Elm Trail. #sunset #rural #sky #nature #clouds #ohio

Framing the moon. A dead tree’s branches frame the rising moon in a blue sky last Friday. #moonrise #moon #nature #sky

Morning moon. The moon was still bright as the sun came up this morning. #moonset #moon #nature #sky #ohio

Falling sun. A cloud bank is about to devour the sun as night advances towards the rural countryside of Northwest Ohio. #sunset #sky #clouds #nature #ohio

Thistles at sundown. This evening along the Slippery Elm Trail, Wood County, OH. #sunset #sky #nature #clouds #rural #ohio

Trees ablaze from the setting sun. Rural Northwest Ohio this evening. #sunset #trees #rural #nature #sky #ohio

Early morning fog with blue above. Looking West with the sun at my back, all seemed peaceful as the fog began to dissipate. #sunrise #nature #sky #rural #ohio

A day passes. Sunset along the Slippery Elm Trail. #sunset #hiking #rural #sky #tree #ohio

Easing the night in. Yesterday in rural Northwest Ohio just after sundown. #sunset #sky #nature #ohio

Phlox at sunset. Along the Slippery Elm Trail in Wood County, OH this evening. #sunset #flowers #spring #nature

Uncertain dusk. As the sun set in Wood County, OH, a couple days ago. #sunset #sky #clouds #nature #ohio

Last hunt of the day. A Great Blue Heron walks among fallen trees in the nearly empty Miami Erie Canal, as dusk descends this evening. #birds #nature #ohio

The edge of night. Sunset today along the Slippery Elm Trail in Wood County, OH. #sunset #nature #sky #clouds #trees #ohio

Slowly rising. Clouds smear the colors of sunrise Thursday morning stretching the time between night and day. #sunrise #dawn #nature #spring #ohio

A tree’s torment. Large burl on a tree seems like an anguished face or is it made of many faces crying out? #nature #trees #blackandwhite

Parting gift from the sun. Intense afterglow moments after the sun disappeared behind the tree line in the flat fields of Northwestern Ohio this evening. #sunset #nature #sky #clouds #ohio

As the day fades away. An empty but quickly greening Miami-Erie Canal was quiet as the sun set on Wednesday evening. #sunset #nature #ohio

New life at sunset. Leaves are growing again on the trees, as the sun sets over the high water of the Maumee River yesterday. #sunset #nature #water #trees #maumeeriver #ohio

Late seed. A milkweed pod on a stem frosted with a vine, opens to the light in late February in the Wintergarden/St. John’s Nature Preserve in Bowling Green, OH. #nature #plants #seeds #ohio #blackandwhite

Summer storm at sunset. Over the fields of northwest Ohio last June. #sunset #storm #nature #rural #ohio #summer

Nature’s frame. Yesterday at Oak Openings Nature Preserve Metropark, near Swanton, OH. #nature #water #trees #oakopenings #ohio #blackandwhite

Mayapple. A sure sign of Spring are Mayapples rising from the forest floor. I captured this one backlit by the blazing Spring sun in Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Nature Preserve in Bowling Green, OH. #nature #hiking #plants #spring #ohio

The greening at sundown. Everything along the path seemed to burst open with green, as the sun was going down along the Miami-Erie Canal and the Maumee River. #sunset #nature #spring #maumeeriver #ohio

Painted by light. A cloud catches the orange light of the setting sun over the high water of Maumee River last evening.

Flight at dawn. A large bird, perhaps a young bald eagle flies towards silhouetted trees at sunrise, along the Maumee River. #sunrise #birds #nature #trees #maumeeriver #ohio

The power of sunset. A wind turbine at dusk in Bowling Green, OH. Unfortunately it and 3 neighboring turbines have been decommissioned and are awaiting removal. Their energy output will be replaced by new solar fields located elsewhere. #sunset #tree #electricity #bowlinggreen #ohio

Sunset beyond the trees in North Carolina. #sunset #nature #trees #northcarina

Full moon lifting off. The full moon rises between the grasses and an anticrepuscular ray in the sky above Holden Beach, NC. #moonrise #moon #nature #anticrepuscular #ocean #beach

Birds of a feather. A flock of Cedar Waxwings pause their flight on the edge of a roof on the seaside. #birds #nature #northcarolina #blackandwhite

Begin again. Sunrise today at Holden Beach, North Carolina. #sunrise #nature #ocean #beach #water #clouds

The moss awakes. A stone wall is alive with bright green moss in early Spring. #moss #nature #ohio

Long after sundown. The glow lasted late into the evening tonight. #sunset #nature #trees #water #ohio

Warm sky at dawn. Sunrise over the Maumee River this morning on a very warm Spring day. #sunrise #nature #trees #sky #water #maumeeriver #ohio

Dried remains. Sunset with dead plants on the riverbank of the Maumee River before Spring takes hold. #sunset #nature #maumeeriver #trees

Stuck. A tree branch waterlogged and mired in mud pokes through the surface of perfectly still cloudy water. #nature #water #blackandwhite

An embrace from the sky through the trees. Sunset on this cold Spring evening. #sunset #nature #trees #ohio