Fine as San DiegoCalled the Birthplace of California and America's Finest City, this collection of Greg Lawson imagery showcases a grand regional diversity from seashore to desert including such treasured places as Torrey Pines State Reserve, Balboa Park, the Cuyamaca and Laguna Ranges and the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. This lovely gift book is not about the city but rather the exceptional natural wealth in found in what could arguably be called "America's Finest

The bright blue-green eye ring of the male Anhinga is a sign of it being in breeding season

Chihuahuan charisma offers seemingly endless desert delights

With no safe place to park

Chile and Argentina share the Andes in the deep south of South America and this Chilean image is from those treasured borderlands

From the Gulf Coast through wide coastal plains upward to handsome earth and rock undulations of the Hill Country

Vista House is considered the crown of Crown Point and adds a handsome architectural dimension to the sweeping vista from Oregon across the Columbia River to Washington state

an occasional sighting may be had of an odd floral delight known as Sturt's Desert Pea

As softer sandstone erodes the caps of hard rock remain somewhat intact and over time find themselves on a pedestal

not plumes of smoke

I quickly pulled into a cottage driveway and hurried to set my camera gear

This massive bull moose is among the largest of all living moose on earth

A young roe deer pauses to interact while foraging in Hungary's Bakony Forest in Central Transdanubia