Sandhill Cranes with their newest addition, a Sandhill Crane chick. Parents stand 4.5+ feet tall and this little one, all legs stood about 20 inches tall. The chicks are also known as colts, can you imagine why?
I took a few macro photos of this purple and cream flower. None of the photos were quite right, but they all made me think of alien landscapes. They were very other-worldly.
Except not really, as I just searched and apparently there ARE balloon berries, and they don't look anything like this. But these look more like balloons than the balloon berries do, and I have nothing else to call them so...