Imagewithvision's 2025 Calendar Cover features - the Ohio spiderwort - is found on many of the Indiana Dunes National Park's trails. This one I photographed in June of 2022 on the Tolleston Dunes Trail. Tolleston Dune is one of the last Indiana Dunes "Dune Ridge" beaches from some 10K years ago when Lake Michigan was about 25 feet higher than today. Below are my impressions and thoughts on each of the photographs and the scenes and images that created them.

January - from Kemil Beach IDNP (Indiana Dunes National Park) Park Lakeview shows the results of the higher water level with ice formed almost all the way past the NW corner of the walkway almost to Lakefront Dr. 
February - I took this photograph in off the IDNP Cowles Bog Trail in late February in 2018. It is one of the earliest plants to arrive in the park, sometimes popping up through the late winters snows.
March - March's photograph was taken in late March near a tiny Coho spawning tributary (Paintersville Drain) on the furthest south beach portion of Warren Dunes south of Bridgman and north of Sawyer, MI.
April - Here are a few Common merganser's paddling their way through one of Nipsco's abandoned ponds early on the Cowles Bog Trail. This portion of the the trail is a birdwatchers paradise in May for many bird species along the migratory path to Canada.
May -  New England asters are normally found in all the dunes along Lake Michigan's from August trough November. It's here because it's my calendar and was my choice.
June - This is my book cover as Sleep Bear Dunes Point Trail's dune represents one of the largest dunes and is in my view the parent of all the dunes in the Great Lakes. If you google this trail you'll get the Anishinaabe Indiginous native peoples version of the momma bear and her two little ones legend. This cover view for my book is a side trail that takes you to the lakefront beach north of Glen Haven.
July -  This Bladder Campion, along with the Deptford Pink are my two favorite flowers in the dunes. These are mostly seen on sandy trails and open dune areas bordering beech, maple and oak savanna forests, in the upper dunes regions of the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
August - August through early November is when the Lake Michigan Coho salmon spawn thousands of the fish can be seen in all the small streams and tributaries of Lake Michigan's eastern shore. One of the reasons Rose and I go to Sleeping Bear Dunes every year is to witness this incredible phenomenon of the Great Lakes dune ecosystem. This photograph is my "impressionistic" pov on a higher bank of the Crystal river in Glen Arbor, MI, where I could get an overhead view of the entire spawning process. Outside of Alaska and the northern Pacific coast, Lake Michigan's eastern shore is one of the only other places where you can see this process.
September - This place - The Platte River near Empire, MI - is where I feel closest to my God, and my personal paradise. Here I wade this river that's only 3-4 feet deep and see the Coho and other fish of the region and appreciate and reflect the riches we still have left in our environment. If I can catch some Brown trout makes the experience even better. The peacefulness, colors and feelings I get at sunrise were the best ever in all the time's I've spent here. Everything - the silence, the beech, maple and oak trees the utter clearness and current of the water, the Coho, the birds - all of it was reproduced exactly as you see in this photograph. 
October - I took this photograph while walking on this access road to one of the most quiet and serene beaches in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. The male buck was alone crossing the road just as I was. Perhaps it felt its surroundings as I did and was kind enough to give me a good pose. I think God gave us both a sign of positivity and peace just as we are about to undergo an existential period of chaos.
November - The beginning of winter. I took this photograph in November of 2016 - nothing significant - however I've never seen Wolf Lake "ice out" in such a beautiful a spiral pattern as this. On the way back to my car i dropped a Tenkara (fishing line) into the inlet stream to the lake and caught a 2 pound bass which I gave to one of the people who were fishing for their families evening meal.
December -  Shelf Ice with a fresh coating of snow on Kemil Beach just east of the Indiana Dunes State Park. The water level in January 2016 was high enough and wave action with the fierce prevailing winds out of the NW and the air and water temperatures were conducive to produce the layered frozen ice waves called shelf ice.
January 2026 - This is another one of my favorite, slightly more abstract, photographs, taken just after switching to my Sony Alpha mirrorless camera. I photographed the fence in both black and white and color, I like and enjoy both. I have only four of these photographs (in BnW) out in circulation (on someone's wall). Maybe I'll have more.

please enjoy this upcoming years calendar. Hopefully it'll bring some peace, beauty and serenity into your lives.
...ra