Het is zomer en vandaag op 4 juli viert Amerika zijn onafhankelijkheid. Een mooi moment om stil te staan bij de schoonheid van Amerika, met alle 50 staten (in alfabetische volgorde):

1. Alabama

Mize Mill Falls, Sipsey Wilderness, Bankhead National Forest

2. Alaska

Bergen weerspiegeld in de Kenai rivier

3. Arizona

Horseshoe Bend

4. Arkansas

Flatside Wilderness, Ouachita National Forest

5. Californië

McWay Falls, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur

6. Colorado

Maroon Bells, Aspen

7. Connecticut

Ender's Falls

8. Delaware

Rehoboth Beach

9. Florida

Dry Tortugas National Park

10. Georgia

Wormsloe Historic Site

11. Hawaii

Wailua Falls

12. Idaho

Bruneau Dunes State Park

13. Illinois

Garden of the Gods, Shawnee National Forest

14. Indiana

Maïsveld in Millville

15. Iowa

Malanaphy Springs State Preserve

16. Kansas

Big Basin Prairie Reserve

17. Kentucky

Een zicht op de Cumberland Gap en Fern Lake

18. Louisiana

Lake Martin

19. Maine

Kustlijn bij het Acadia National Park

20. Maryland

De Brighton Dam in het Tridelphia Reservoir

21. Massachusetts

The Knob, Falmouth

22. Michigan

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore tijdens zonsondergang

23. Minnesota

Minnehaha Falls

24. Mississippi

Cypress Swamp, Natchez Trace Parkway

25. Missouri

Greer Springs

26. Montana

Grinnell Lake, Glacier National Park

27. Nebraska

Scotts Bluff National Monument

28. Nevada

Fire State Park

29. New Hampshire

De Androscoggin River en de Great North Woods

30. New Jersey

De Pine Barrens

31. New Mexico

White Sands National Monument

32. New York

Taughannock Falls State Park

33. North Carolina

Thomas Divide, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

34. North Dakota

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

35. Ohio

Upper Falls bij Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills State Park

36. Oklahoma

Mount Scott, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

37. Oregon

Mount Hood

38. Pennsylvania

Youghiogheny River Gorge in het Ohiopyle State Park

39. Rhode Island

Mohegan Bluffs Beach, Block Island

40. South Carolina

Botany Bay Road, Edisto Island

41. South Dakota

Botany Bay Road, Edisto Island

42. Tennessee

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

43. Texas

Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park

44. Utah

Bryce Amphitheater, Bryce Canyon National Park

45. Vermont

Green Mountain National Forest

46. Virginia

Shenandoah National Park

47. Washington