A red deer in Richmond Park, London

Cleaning the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County elephant model, Calif.

Thick ice clings to the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada

Christmas tree farm in Ontario, Canada

"Otaru snow light path" Hokkaido, Otaru

The Minster of St. Mary and St. Mark on the island of Reichenau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Lake St. Croix, over the Verdon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

"Onsen Monkey" Nagano, Jigokudani Monkey Park

Milky Way over the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico

Paratroopers fill the skies over Fort Bragg in North Carolina, for Operation Toy Drop

Tengboche Monastery in the Himalayan Mountains, Nepal

Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina

Tsusiat Falls along the West Coast Trail in B.C., Canada

In Somerset for Old Twelvey Night

Burrowing Owl cub

Desert View Watchtower, Arizona Grand Canyon National Park

[Today] International Friendship Day to play in the parachute kids, Kolkata, India

Interior of an igloo on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

Mars crater in the northern Great Plains knot of ice

Maracana stadium over the blooming fireworks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil