Holi Festival - India

REUTERS/K. K. Arora (INDIA)

People throw coloured powder while celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi (festival of colours) at Nand Gaon in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 6, 2009. The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.

Baby red panda

(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Pemba, a four-month-old red panda cub makes his first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Australia, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Pemba is the 44th red panda cub bred in the zoo's international breeding program for the endangered species since 1977.

Louis, Hedley and Dorothy

(AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record Mark Wilson)

Ring-tailed Lemur family at the Spring River Zoo in Roswell, New Mexico, examine and nibble upon an old cardboard box that had blown into their cage Wednesday, March 4, 2009 during gusty winds. According to zoo director Elaine Mayfield the Lemur cage is cleaned out every morning to clear such debris.

Shadow bride

(AFP/Ferenc Isza)

Budapest catwalk : A model presents an outfit by Hungarian designer Imre Stumpf during the opening of Hometrend and Design exhibition in the Hall of Art in Budapest.

Dolphins and tiger cub

(AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)

In this photo provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Mavrick, a 14-month-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, blows a mass of bubbles while checking out Akaasha, a six-month-old female Bengal tiger at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Park animal staff strolled by the dolphin exhibit as they escorted the tiger cubs on their daily walk around the park.

Beautiful but toxic blue

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a blue poison dart frog is perched on a rock at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 in New York. The frog's blue color serves and an indicator for other species that its secretions are toxic.

Space shuttle Atlantis

(AP Photo/John Raoux)

Space shuttle Atlantis on pad 39A, left, and space shuttle Endeavour on pad 39B stand ready at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. Atlantis is targeted for an Oct. 10 launch on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour will be on standby in the unlikely event that a rescue mission for the Atlantis's crew would be necessary. After Endeavour is cleared from its duty as a rescue vehicle, workers will move it to pad 39A in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station on Nov. 12.

Blue Olympic performers

REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games at the National Stadium, September 6, 2008. The stadium is also known as the Bird's Nest.

Planets collide

(Lynette R. Cook/ UCLA/Handout/Reuters)

This artist's rendering, released September 19, 2008, shows a planetary collision in the constellation Aries. Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported Friday.

Flamingo

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a Chilean pink flamingo preens its feathers at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008.

"Planet"

I'm still trying to figure out why this is entitled "Planet". Any ideas?

REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN)

Visitors look at a sculpture entitled "Planet" by British artist Marc Quinn at a Sotherby's selling exhibition at Chatsworth House, central England September 16, 2008.

Blue clouds

Photographer unknown (if anyone knows, please let me know so I can credit this gorgeous photo.)

Sumatran tiger cubs :

(AFP/DDP/Sascha Schuermann)

Two six-week-old baby Sumatran tigers sit in their enclosure at the zoo in the western German city of Krefeld where they received their first vaccinations against disease.

Mr and Mrs Mallard in our covered swimming pool

Photo by: By D. Bowden

We haven't yet opened our swimming pool yet this year because we have been so busy with other things, so a pair of ducks have made the pool their home. Funny how they keep coming back and keep diving for fish that are not there . . . or at least I hope there aren't any fish in there!

Mrs Mallard diving for "fish" in our covered swimming pool

Photo by D Bowden

Mr Mallard diving for fish in our covered pool

Photo by D. Bowden

Bunny in our backyard

Photo by D. Bowden
This is one of the rabbits we have living in and around our backyard.

The Rhine Falls near Neuhausen

(AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Scmidt)

The Rhine Falls near Neuhausen, Switzerland, is illuminated by blue lights, overnight Saturday April 19, 2008. Swiss artist Charles Keller illuminated the Rhine falls with coloured lights, after it was only lit by two white flood lights in the past. The new illumination is a measure to improve the public image of Europe's biggest water fall.

Unbelievable that this is a photograph.

Dali's Boat

Design for Mad Tristan

By Salvador Dali

Etheral Dancer

(AFP/Leon Neal)

A woman from Canadian circus group, Cirque du Soleil performs "Delirium" onstage at the O2 arena in London.

Bull-headed

(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Bulls, 'Toli,' left, pushes head to head with 'Bungyong' in the 2008 Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, southeast of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 13, 2008. More than 180 bulls from all of the nation took part in a week-long bullfighting event.

Whooo!

(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

A young burrowing owl looks out for food in a park in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Sunday, April 20, 2008. The greatest threat to the burrowing owl community is habitat destruction, caused primarily by land development.

Profile in contrast

(AFP/Joel Saget)
A French worker stands outside of a restaurant in Paris.

Rosetti chandelier

(AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)

A huge chandelier hangs on the ceiling of the Rosetti hall inside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, where press conferences were given during NATO's 2008 Bucharest summit.

Love in winter snow

REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE)
A couple kisses on Kiev's Bridge of Lovers on Valentine's Day
February 14, 2008

Reflections in a winter puddle

(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Mario Tama)
Wintry walk :

A woman walks past Tompkins Square Park during a morning snow storm in New York City.

Monkeys in a hot spring

REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN)

Japanese monkeys soak in a hot spring in a snow-covered valley in Yamanouchi town, central Japan February 17, 2008.

Swimming

AP News Photo

Merry Belugas

(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Santa Belugas : White Belugas, wearing Santa hats pose with a trainer during a new Christmas show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture.

"Romantic Feelings"

REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT

Workers make a snow sculpture "Romantic Feelings" in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, December 16, 2007. The sculpture will debut at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo which starts from December 20, at the Sun Island Scenic Area in Harbin, local media said. Picture taken December 16, 2007.

REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES)

A man lights a cigarette in front of a giant lantern during the Christmas Lantern Festival in San Fernando, Pampanga, north of Manila December 15, 2007. The lantern festival is held annually by the local government to promote and attract local and foreign tourists. Each lantern, which took two months to prepare by at least 20 people, has more than 3,000 bulbs and measures 20 feet (6 m) in diameter.

Santa goes swimming

(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

A man dressing as Santa Claus frolics in the sea during the 63nd Christmas bathe in Nice, southern France, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. 250 swimmers took part to the bathe. The water was 15 degrees Celsius, 59 Fahrenheit.

Pull-ups

(AFP/Adrian Dennis)

Hanging out : A Blue Tit hangs from a branch awaiting its turn on a bird feeder in forestry commission land near Minley Manor, Farnborough, some 40 miles west of London.

Shadow Dancing

AFP/Fabrice Coffrini

Temple of Poseidon

(AP Photo/Frank Hormann)

Sculptor Tolek Zen from Poland works at his sculpture entitled 'Temple of Poseidon' in Roevershagen, northern Germany, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.

Potato Tree

REUTERS/Pilar Olivares (PERU)

Students stand next to a Christmas tree made of potatoes at a local institute in Lima December 4, 2007. Students made the tree using 98kg (216 lbs) of potatoes and 18 varieties.

My daughter Mary

My daughter, Mary went dressed as Leeloo from Fifth Element this Halloween. She used conduit tape she bought at Home Depot! Halloween is her favorite holiday.

Water drops on a spider web

Water drops hang in a spider web on a foggy morning in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Autumn reflection

An autumn coloured forest is reflected on the lake of Viacha outside Minsk. (AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Boathouse in Germany

A boathouse is mirrored in the Lake Max Eyth in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. November started with a bright sunny day in southern Germany. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

Moon and mountain

Glacier moon : The moon is seen above the "Feegletscher" (Fairy Glacier) near the ski resort of Saas-Fee. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Green glass art

At first I thought this was something under a microscope!

This is a work of glass art by artist Dale Chihuly at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh as a part of the Chihuly at Phipps gardens and art exhibit on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sky on fire

An old farming hay boom is silhouetted by the sky Friday morning, Nov. 2, 2007, sunrise south of Nampa, Idaho. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Mike Vogt)

Red-feathery model

A model presents a creation by Nicola Le Cauchios of France during a fashion show in Budapest October 27, 2007. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai (HUNGARY)

Pigtails

REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA)

A girl makes a pigtail to another girl against the sunset in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh July 30, 2007.

Dancers in Bogota

(AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)

Women dance in the streets during a carnival parade in Bogota, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007. Thousands of people take part in the carnival festivities during a celebrating marking the 469th anniversary of Bogota's foundation.

Swimming in a sea of feathers

(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

A duck swims in a sea of feathers dropped from molting geese and ducks that have taken up residence around the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007, in Washington.

exotic dance

REUTERS/Francisco Bonilla (SPAIN)

Dancers perform an exotic dance during the 13th Moorish Games of Aben Humeya in Purchena, southeast Spain late August 5, 2007. The games is a competition of medieval sports and exotic dancing.