Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Years Eve 2009

New Years Eve 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

Winter Solstice


Francois' Leaf Monkey


'Tantan,' a one-month-old male Francois' Leaf Monkey, relaxes with his parents at the zoological gardens Zoorasia in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009.
(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Pangolin


Handout photo from the World Wildlife Fund in Malaysia shows a pangolin climbing a tree. Malaysian wildlife authorities said they have rescued 130 pangolins and arrested two men attempting to smuggle the protected species destined to be sold to restaurants and medicine shops.
(AFP/HO/WWF/File/Bjorn Olesen)

Evening Sky


In this two-minute exposure, the rising moon illuminates clouds sweeping across the evening sky over St. Martin's In The Field, an Episcopal summer chapel, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, in Biddeford Pool, Maine. With the approach winter solstice, Maine now receives only about nine hours of daylight.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)