Wool and mohair yarn

Black Fell, Lake District, England

Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Harbin, China

Earth as seen from the International Space Station

Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

Hohenzollern Castle, Germany

Polar bear in Svalbard, Norway

New Year's Eve fireworks, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia

Rock formations in the White Desert, Egypt

A pair of silver-studded blue butterflies

Maloja, Switzerland

Blue Lagoon, Grindavík, Iceland

Beverley Westwood Common, East Yorkshire, England

Miniature holiday scene in Strasbourg, France

Amalga Harbor, Alaska

Gentoo penguins in Antarctica

Christmas tree of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France

Sun halo over Lake Antermoia in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy

Christmas market at Belvedere in Vienna, Austria

A northern cardinal perched in a common winterberry bush in Marion County, Illinois