"Alligator Rose" - A mauve-colored sunset at Bandon Beach, Oregon.

"Al Gore walkie-talkie to Little Riding Hood walkie-talkie: 'What's more fearsome: the Big Bad Wolf or Global Warming?' " - Addendum: Both are scary, but one is make-believe and one is for real. Can the fat demagogue guy with the cigar figure out the difference? - ed.

"Every Hue of Autumn" - Like an iridescent peacock strutting its feathers, nature too can give a show of resplendent pigments.

"Snow-on-Teal" - Late summer's snow reflecting its sheeth of white, only to the stout-hearted adventurers privy to this remote location. Upper Red Pine Lake, Wasatch Mountains, N. Utah.

"Father Fog and Mother Earth" - The ethereal mist caresses the purple bloom. Wild Perennial Lupins (Lupinus perennis) in full regalia, captured in the afternoon along one of the many trails of Mount Rainier, Washington.

"The Turquoise Time Tunnel" - Last view of the Paradise Ice Caves of Mount Rainier, Washington. Taken 1990; in fall of 1991 there was a total collapse of this tunnel, according to the Tahoma Woods (National Park Service newsletter) - ed.