Haydee Romero

These wooden steps take beachgoers over the sand dunes onto the white sand beach of Destin on Florida's Emerald Coast, named after the emerald green waters of this part of the Gulf of Mexico.

A rock barrier protects a white sand beach near Destin, on Florida's Emerald Coast, named after the emerald green waters of this part of the Gulf of Mexico.

Clouds frame a statue dedicated to Flora, the Collector of Dreams, by the renowned Cuban artist Cundo Bermudez, on the waterfront Maurice A. Ferre Park in downtown Miami, where the stone benches are occupied by the homeless while city residents stroll, run, cycle or walk their dogs along the bayfront.

Just before sunset, puffy white clouds dot a blue sky over the palm trees that ring a man-made atoll pool at Matheson Hammock Park in south Miami.

This is a view over the Great Smoky Mountains, which live up to their name in this photo for the blue mist that at times hangs over the peaks and in the valleys. The Cherokee Indians called them Shaconage or "place of the blue smoke".

This black and white picture shows the Great Smoky Mountains National Park turned into a Winter Wonderland during snowfall in February as I drove up into the heights past leafless trees standing sentry on the cleared roadway.

This picture was taken on a cold February day high up in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where a graceful curve in the road frames the puffy clouds in the bright blue sky and the mountains beyond, and the bumps and tufts of piled up snow on the ground.

In an early morning walk I captured sea birds gathering on the seashore and beautiful pink clouds from the light of dawn at Ormond Beach in Florida.