A sunset in French Frigate Shoals that started with a humpback whale repeatedly breaching and ended with a green flash. A winter day on an unnamed island in the Mississippi delta before the monarch butterflies crossed the Gulf of Mexico to continue their migration to Mexico. Every bush was fluttering orange and black with them. Sitting alone on a fallen, fern- and moss-covered tree over a rushing gorge during a heavy rain storm at 6000 feet on the windward flank of Haleakala volcano, Maui.