Seaweed washed ashore on a Port Aransas, Texas, beach.
Plants grow in the sandy expanse of Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
The sun sets on tall grass near Marfa, Texas.
A tangle of roots spotted under a tree in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
A yucca plant grows in the arid landscape of California’s Mojave National Preserve.
The seemingly-endless sandscape of New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.
Sunflowers in the morning sun in a field near McKinney, Texas.
A stone doorway at Oklahoma’s frontier-era Fort Washita.
Vibrantly-colored Tahoka daisies, spotted in the foothills of Colorado’s Pikes Peak.
A cluster of cacti on a bluff near Mason, Texas.