A pelican alights atop a cross erected on the sand dunes that line Aransas Pass at Port Aransas, Texas.
A panoramic view of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The first light of day on the cruise ship Carnival Magic, somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.
The sun begins to crest nearby mountains at Stansbury Island along the salt flats that make of the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
The Ouachita Mountains stretch into the distance in Western Arkansas near the town of Mena.