Little Rock, Arkansas’ Junction Bridge—a former railroad lift bridge now converted to a park—spans the Arkansas River.
Pine trees seem to lean over Broken Bow Lake at Oklahoma’s Beavers Bend State Park.
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.