Today we celebrate reindeers, who according to urban legend have just pulled Father Christmas' sleight on the magical night of Christmas day. The reindeer in these images are from Norway (notice the Norther lights) and from Finland. May the magic of Christmas touch your heart and mind!

Colourful fish and coral at the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia.

Deer in India.

Swans on a lake at the winter solstice, in Yili, Xinjiang, China.

Lupines in purple and blue growing wild.

November is Manatee Awareness Month! Today we wish thise gentle giants a safe and happy Manatee Awareness Month. Closer cousins to elephants than to fellow sea mammals such as whales and dolphins, manatees follow a fully herbivorous diet of sea grasses and other marine plants — so these fish hanging out with our buddy here needn"t fear becoming a manatee"s lunch. 😀

Blue tit (left) and great tit in snowfall, at the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park in France.

Grapes on the vine ripening for the autumn harvest.

A lion looks up at a drone.