A flower in our landlord's front yard. The hot and humid weather apparently doesn't bother these flowers; they've been going crazy for several days now. Justin Hankins has some awesome flower photos up, although I'm not sure where they were taken. I often think of the beauty I hope to have around me when I move away from this swamp, but I might miss brilliant colors like this (and this!) in heat of summer.

Still, other parts of the country have beauty you just don't often see around here. For example, sunsets like this are common in the west/northwest. Meadows with aspen trees like this are also very nice and more common out west (although some of those flowers look like the picture taken above locally, don't they?).