RED BUTTES RED SANDSTONE bench and South Fork Kishwaukee

bench and South Fork Kishwaukee River

A viceroy butterfly has a brief moment basking in the sunlight on a swamp milkweed plant before taking off and defending its domain against the larger monarch butterflies in this prairie scene at Wildflower Park in Northern Illinois

A thick mist emanates off of Wildflower Lake as the morning sun begins to cast its colors onto this scene in Northern Illinois

a heavy mist was about the park on this early morning and a nice sunrise never came to fruition

RED BUTTES RED SANDSTONE bench and South Fork KishwaukeeThe Mogollon Rim is an escarpment that runs east and west through the middle of Arizona. It is made up of sandstone that has eroded over time leaving behind canyons and buttes. The red color sandstone is do to hematite or iron oxide (rust). (693 3896)