Who needs artificial lighting to create an image? Nature provides effective back lighting to highlight designs in yuca leaves.

Who needs artificial lighting to create an image? Nature provides effective back lighting to highlight designs in yuca leaves.

A simple image of shadows of palm trees on textured rocks reveals yet another design of nature

The trunks of bamboo reflect various shades of color, but humans have to deface nature’s designs

The receding tide of the ocean creates nature’s design on a beach utilizing sand and stones, almost like an abstract painting

The famous Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers in which each is the sum of the preceding two (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, . . .), shows up everywhere in nature—in nautilus shells, in pinecones, and now in the structure of cacti.

Another simple design of nature – ripples in the sand under the waters of a lake

This week’s theme is Designs of Nature. Nature creates unique, sometimes simple, designs if you look around. Here is an image of the branches of a leafless tree spread out in a random formation against a blue, cloudy sky.

Nature creates unique color combinations in flowers

Even nature provides scenes that capture its serenity in monochrome

Water lilies at the The Highlands Biological Station, Nature Center, and Botanical Gardens, a public garden and nature sanctuary that showcases the diverse flora of the southern Appalachians in North Carolina

Nature has taken over and trees and vegetation grow at will at Old Car City, Georgia

An old truck left for years in nature has created a colorful piece of art at Old Car City, White, Georgia

Although this old van at Old Car City is dilapidated and non-functional, it still is a medium to display a color palette aged by nature

Designs and colors make up quite a flower combination of nature

Nature adds elements, a bush and rock, for a landscape composition at Roan Mountain Bald

Nature’s color combination of flowers ….

Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset. Eroded by time and nature, Durdle Door is one of Dorset’s most photographed and iconic landmarks. The name Durdle is derived from an old English word ‘thirl’, which means to pierce, bore or drill.