Natural Beauty

If ever we begin to doubt our creativity, all we need to do is look at how God reminds us of this infinite potential in us. Every day God reminds us with finess this limitless creativity and displays his work on Nature.

We can only marvel at Nature, the wonderworks that serves to remind us of our own limitless potential that is within us. (you may click on images to enlarge)

“dirty thunderstorms”

Abraham Lake is an artificial lake on North Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, Canada.

Photographer Fikret Onal explains the phenomenon: “The plants on the lake bed release methane gas and methane gets frozen once coming close enough to much colder lake surface and they keep stacking up below” each other.

(below is the) Underground natural springs in Mexico:

Giant crystal cave in Nacia, Mexico; The main chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found. It is said that the cave is extremely hot with air temperatures reaching up to 58 °C (136 °F) and with 90 to 99 percent humidity. Without proper protection people can only endure approximately ten minutes of exposure at a time.

(pictured below is the) Shimmering shores of Vaadhoo, Maldives: According to marine biologist and bioluminescence expert Woodland Hastings of Harvard University, various species of phytoplankton are known to bioluminesce, and their lights can be seen in oceans all around the world.

Walk on clouds at the salt flats of Bolivia (picture below). Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat and is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes.

Light pillars over Moscow. Light pillars are a kind of optical phenomenon which is formed by the reflection of sunlight or moonlight by ice crystals that are present in the Earth’s atmosphere. The light pillar looks like a thin column that extends vertically above and/or below the source of light. The light pillar is prominently visible when the Sun is low or lies below the horizon. (source: Wikipedia)

Pictured to the right is a natural salt water fountain off the coast of Oregon, known as Thors Well (the gateway to the underworld) is part of Cape Perpetua, a typical Pacific Northwest headland. This is a forested area of land on the central Oregon Coast, surrounded by water on three sides. Thor’s Well is also often simply called the Spouting Horn. It is essentially a huge salt water fountain operated by the Pacific Ocean’s power.


Beautiful sandstone formations in Arizona.








Rainbow Eucalyptus trees in Kailua, Hawaii along the road to Hana:

The blood falls in Antartica: is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. (source ScienceDaily
Ghost Trees of Pakistan: After the monsoon of 2010, millions of spiders have climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters in Pakistan. Locals say there are now fewer mosquitos reducing the risk of malaria.(source: dailymail.co.uk)

Giant clouds over Beijing: According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a giant cumulonimbus is a thunderstorm cloud that forms from a towering cumulus; this one spanned for miles.
The Underwater forest of Lake Kaindy displays a dried-out tops of submerged Spruce trees that rise above the water’s surface like the masts of sunken ships. They are the only sign of the amazing frozen forest below the water’s surface. The water is so cold that the pine needles remain on the trees, even after a hundred years of being submerged.
The lake is located in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains and was created after an earthquake in 1911 triggered a large landslide blocking the gorge and forming a natural dam. (source: curioushistory)

This final Natural Beauty makes you wonder where the artist Christo got his idea to cover the Florida islands with pink. Lake Hillier, Australia: is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia.The source of the pink color has not yet been proven; yet despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above, the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it appears more of a clear pink hue. The shoreline is also covered in salt crust deposits. (source: wikipedia)
Original source of pics found at nature-pictures.info.

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How can we create such wonders I ask myself? Perhaps God gives us clues. To seek from the silence, and in introspection bring forth a spark that spurs our canvass of imagination to give birth to a kaleidoscope of possibilities where we upon our own wonderment marvel for a moment and understand that it has always been the work of God dormant within us.