Images: Photo Contest Finalists
Dont let the snow scare you from enjoying the outside. I took this of my daughter cross country skiing at the Morton Arboretum.
Bonnie Graham of Lombard
A grasshopper peers behind a blade of grass near a pond at William Rainey Harper College last September.
Grace Tureck of Barrington
Icicles form on the edges of several leaves in Volo Bog State Natural Area last month.
Viveca Joy Skyles of Lakemoor
This Eagle just caught breakfast out of the cold Fox River.
Bob Williams of Huntley
The dawn sunlight reflects off a not-yet-frozen Lake Farmington in Kildeer and the accumulated snow and ice on the cattails at waters edge after a snowfall.
Steve Parmelee of Kildeer
This is a photo of snow pellets, or graupel, raining down in my backyard. Sometimes the supercooled water droplets will hit a falling snowflake and freeze as tiny pellets to the snowflake, giving the appearance of a rime-coated snowflake. This is one such snowflake on the leaf of a boxwood plant.
Dori Eldridge of Naperville
This was taken in the neighborhood park in the Terrace Hills subdivision in Algonquin in June of last year.
Jane McDonough of Algonquin
This photo was taken off the coast of Sorrento, Italy in November. The seas were perfect as the sun set.
Mary Bahry of Wheaton
A giraffe stares down at tourists three years ago in Kenya, Africa as he munched on some dry grass.
Jeanne Garrett of Arlington Heights
Several orchids produce an interesting array of shadows in the indoor gardens at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe last month.
Deb Marak of Arlington Heights
Waiting for at turn at the feeder on New Years Day.
Joanne Buckley of Geneva
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