Comics

Hands in stone reach for the world of the living in a cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.

With a name like that, he's bound to be mean...

A time of harvest, and October is a month for harvesting pumpkins.

Autumn, and another beautiful sky.

Oh, to fall under the spell of one of them is to fall under the spell of many...

Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean in southern Florida, USA.

A lens from the lighthouse at Cape Charles, Virginia, from the collection at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News.

Introducing "Skimishes" -- brief battles in art, poetry and prose.

Yellow wildflowers decry the end of summer at Half Moon Bay, California, USA.

A sailboat sweeps beneath the Bay Bridge on San Francisco Bay.

A head-on view of a menacing-looking moth.

Chiaroscuro sky in southern Florida, USA.

Amazing to be on the scene, to hear the "boom" that signalled the winner of the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup on the San Francisco Bay!

Heuchera -- coral bells -- at JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Close up photograph of a deceased tiger swallowtail butterfly.

Tropical weather paints a spectacular sky in southern Florida, USA.

Sea lions snuggle on a pier in Monterey, California, USA.

Capturing the art of the spider, and the spider itself as art.

A deer takes refuge from the summer sun in the forest shade.

Late-season ferns at Del Valle Recreational Area near Livermore, CA, USA.

So beautiful, so serene, so dangerous: Mt. Shasta, California, USA.

A delectable view into the heart of a lily.

The exotic foliage of the Florida beaches.

A red-winged blackbird flashes his color in the reeds.

And what's the first thing you'd like to see in the morning?

Close up of a Spring beauty: dicentra.

Highway system for pests...

A rare glimpse of specialized orchard equipment in California's Central Valley.

A view of San Francisco, California, and the expanse of the bay.

Spring's promise of fruit to come.