Bright pink rhododendron flowers stand vibrant amid fog shrouded giant redwood trees.
Joshua Tree National Park, California - long ago burned by a desert wildfire, tall joshua tree yucca plants display dalmation-like black and white markings. Around the joshua trees, spring wildflowers are in bloom.
A single yucca stalk rises from the snow-white, soft, gypsum sand at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
