May 02 2012

Japan

Mountain goats in the snow of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, US

(© David Courtenay/Getty Images)

Australia

The tail of a perentie in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

(© SIME / eStock Photo)

Canada, China, Germany, France

Sunset view of Kamui Cape on the Shakotan Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan

(© Japan Travel Bureau/Photolibrary)

 Dusk at Senganmon of Kumomi-Izu, Japan

(© Tommy Tsutsui/Flickr/Getty Images)
  

New Zealand, United States

Racetrack Playa in the National Park Death Valley, California, US

(© Robert Harding World Imagery/Neale Clark/Getty Images)

May 01 2012

Australia, Canada, China, Germany,  Japan, United Kingdom

Racetrack Playa in the National Park Death Valley,California,US

(© Robert Harding World Imagery/Neale Clark/Getty Images)

France, New Zealand, United States 

Maypole in front of a church in Wolnzach, Bavaria,Germany

 (© Guenter Rossenbach/Corbis)

April 28 2012

Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan

Close-up of raindrops on a Madame A. Meilland Peace Rose

(© Mark Windom/Getty Images)

France

Racetrack Playa in the National Park Death Valley, California, US

(© Robert Harding World Imagery/Neale Clark/Getty Images)

New Zealand, United States

A natural face formation on a stove-pipe sponge

(© Mauricio Handler/Corbis)

Powdered pigments on display in Kathmandu, Nepal

(© Dinodia/age fotostock)