The green hills of earth...OK, they're brown, red brown. It's fall and blue skies have emerged after another wet day. These hills are covered with a low growing pioneer plant called dryas, and when dryas fruits are wet their white feathery part becomes translucent and the overall color of the fruit head becomes brown, red brown. When it dries out on those rare fall days (hours) after the sun comes out, these hills in Muir Inlet go gray. Photographer: Bill Eichenlaub