Palm trees in San Diego.

The vistas at California’s Joshua Tree National park are stunning.

A hummingbird rests on its tiny nest amid the thorns of a cactus in Palm Springs.

A Voladores performance in and around a 60-foot pole in the center of Mexico City.

Frida Kahlo’s easel and wheelchair in the Mexico City studio where she painted for much of her life.

Jacarandas blooming in Mexico City.

A giant wooden peacock from Mexico.

A wedding parade in Oaxaca, Mexico.

A raven and a Pileated Woodpecker on the California coast.

Cascading waterfalls near Ottawa, Illinois.

Thomas Hart Benton died in this Kansas City home studio in 1975. It looks exactly the same today as it did then.

A rain cloud approaches Bermuda's lovely south shore.

Thanksgiving in the beautiful Hudson Valley.

Lots of traffic jams on our way home from the holiday weekend.

The amazing Iguazu Falls on the border between Argentina and Brazil.

Brilliant colors at the orchid show at Shaw’s Garden in St. Louis.

Ten years ago today, Russian reformer and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge close to Red Square. I visited the shooting site a few days later. Low-level assassins were charged with the murder but dissidents suspect a Kremlin link.

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Chicago’s Bean from the air.