White SandsNolina, a plant used by native Americans for basket weaving, flourishes in blanched earth at the White Sands National Monument of New Mexico, USA.

Though this is a collection of personal images reflecting photographer Greg Lawson's appreciation for Arizona

Rocky outreach on Atlantic coast

throughout its statewide reach from the four corners area all the way to the Grand Canyon

and iconic national landmarks

These four and the final step amount to 365 stairs and represent the annual cycle of days

pine and cypress reach toward the heavens and shade grateful receivers

and always altered by erosion

Arizona's grand diversity is an ongoing celebration

located in an oak tree high above the earthen floor offers protection from predators

but in the far east of the massive Colorado Plateau which carries the water of the Colorado River through Utah and Northern Arizona

Red leaves of fall double their impact when mirrored in the Housatonic River

Arthropods called horseshoe crabs are considered as living fossils