Photo of the day

[texan]

In this Thursday, March 28, 2013 photo, Louisville Slugger baseball bats are shown, in Louisville, Ky.
Louisville Slugger is rolling out a new logo for the first time in 33 years on a new bat that company officials
say is designed to be the hardest wooden bat ever produced at the Louisville, Ky., factory.
The new logo and bat will debut on Opening Day games in Major League Baseball. (AP Photo/Brett Barrouquere)

 

[ajblakejr]

A competitor warms up prior to racing in the Pattle to Battle MS race at Collaroy Beach in
Sydney, Australia.
The inaugural event was organized to raise awareness and funds for Multiple Sclerosis
research in Australia.

Thank you, Australia.
Thank you, Texan

AJ

 

[texan]

A New York Mets fan waits to ride the escalator at CitiField before the New York Mets opening day MLB
National League baseball game against the San Diego Padres in New York, April 1, 2013.

 

[texan]

A vibrant green aurora flashes in the clear night sky behind the "Tykky" sculptures, or "frozen" trees, in Finland's
Riisitunturi National Park. The park's forests are especially well known for their snow-covered trees, which appear
almost surreal when the moonlight is blue.

 

[texan]

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Staion took this photograph of the
snow-covered cone of volcano, Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy

 

[texan]

Trees, South Africa Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt
For trees that grow on mountaintops near Cape Town, South Africa, wind can be a magnificent sculptor.
Trees that can handle the wind's effects best will alter their shape to deal with the load of the wind.

 

[serenity now]

there's a lesson there : bend, don't break

that's also how you get through life

 

[texan]

A surfer rides a wave at dawn on Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia.

 

[texan]

Lightning in New Mexico.

 

[Catatonic]

A vibrant green aurora flashes in the clear night sky behind the "Tykky" sculptures, or "frozen" trees, in Finland's Riisitunturi National Park. The park's forests are especially well known for their snow-covered trees, which appear almost surreal when the moonlight is blue.

Nice impact with good composition.

 

[texan]

Butterfly and Rhododendron

 

[texan]

A South African man has become the first person to float from Robben Island to Cape Town
using only helium balloons.

Matt Silver-Vallance, 37, who now lives in Coventry, took around an hour to make the
3.7 mile crossing above the Atlantic

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

lets see him do this the other way around! neat little island. how much? i wanna buy it. thanks Texan

 

[texan]

A heard of dear run through a snowy field in a village near Czestochowa, southern Poland.

 

[texan]

Photographer Larry Gerbrandt took this photo of sunset over the ice-filled
Jokull lagoon in Vatnajokull, Iceland

 

[texan]

A worker hand-picks giant tecolote ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California.

 

[moreluck]

Carlsbad is definitely a drive-by photo op every spring!! I've seen it many times and it's always a jaw-dropping experence.
So beautiful !!

 

[texan]

The Milky Way seen from New Zealand.

 

[texan]

Lightning strikes across the skies of Patterson, Arkansas April 10, 2013.

 

[texan]

To the victims of the Boston Marathon attack. My Sadness and Grief over this.