Images Dated 24th December 2007

Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa) at shoreline of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA

Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at 6, 225 ft (1, 897 m), it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, and at 122, 160, 280 acre ft (150, 682, 490 dam3) trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United States. Its depth is 1, 645 ft (501 m), making it the second deepest in the United States after Crater Lakein Oregon (1, 945 ft (593 m))

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A woman prays during Christmas Mass at the Catholic church in Gaojiabao village near the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province, December 24, 2007. There are some 10 million Catholics in China, divided between an "underground" church loyal to the Holy See and the state-approved church that respects the Pope as a spiritual figurehead but rejects effective papal control. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (CHINA)

Pine Warbler - Immature female in first winter

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Pine Warbler - Immature female in first winter
December, CT. USA
Dendroica pinus
Jim Zipp
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