Photo of the Day Archive

Morning light accentuates the rock layers in a group of Arizona hoodoos.

A rocky portal frames a view of Monument Valley’s Three Sisters formation.

Prickly pear cactuses and saguaros rise from the landscape of the Sonoran Desert.

Snowfall and golden aspens define a view of the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff.

A small butte reflects the layered rock of Coyote Buttes North in the Vermilion Cliffs.

Black-and-White Wednesday: A Gila woodpecker sits atop a crested saguaro at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

A migrating monarch butterfly stops at Catalina State Park near Tucson.

The multicolored buttes of the Navajo Nation’s Little Painted Desert are shrouded in long shadows.