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Posted April 22, 2016 1:01 am
A mallard duck dives underwater to look for a meal at Lake Arlington.
Fred Share of Arlington Heights
Travelers wait for flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona in December 2012.
Tom Mooney of Rolling Meadows
Three-year-old Maya Malcolm admires a beautiful horse at a Barrington Hills stable last September.
Rhonda Malcolm of Palatine
I took this photo while taking some pictures at Exner Marsh. This Eagle flew by with a Mallard Duck as it's wing man. I can hear the Mallard telling the guy's back home that he flew with the big guys today.
Bob Williams of Huntley
I took this photo of a fence that separates private pastureland from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in southern California. The fields are very lush after recent rains following four years of drought.
Robert M. Sharp of Gilberts
I am currently a Student at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL and the other day I witnessed a couple of ducklings fall into a storm drain. After getting the help of a few other Augie students and Public Safety, we were able to rescue the baby ducks safely! Here is a picture of one of the ducklings swimming happily after the rescue.
Christie Beach of St. Charles
This image was taken in our family's woods in Pennsylvania over spring break. We love to hike and look for salamanders, frogs, and other critters up there. I like the lighting and how Ben, my son, is so engaged in nature.
Julie Kulak of Naperville
I shot this photo of my 9 year old grandson Emmett while he waited in a hallway for his little sister's dance recital to begin. Emmett is an accomplished, 2nd generation Rubik's Cube devotee and spends most of his "waiting moments" with a Cube in his hands.
Debra Hruby of Wheaton
This was my first view of the Grand Canyon on a blustery spring day. There was snow in those clouds! What a majestic, mysterious wonder!
Bari Flores of Addison
A close-up of a blossom on a white flower in the tropical greenhouse of the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe last March.
Nicole Dicop-Hineline of Gurnee
Sunrise at 6:29 a.m. in Playa del Carmen at El Dorado Seaside Suites on April 16.
Jim Huskey of Libertyville
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