![Orange-yellow sunrise through puffy clouds above a beach with incoming waves.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/09/south-carolina-sunrise-sept3-2018-e1536168857867.jpg)
Sunrise on Garden City Beach, South Carolina. Image via Fran Aquino.
![Alley with trees on both sides covered in white blooms diminishing into distance.](https://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/04/cherry_trees_spring_Kerri_Willerford_Antelope_Valley_CA-e1555619866711.jpg)
Cherry trees blooming in Antelope Valley, California, by Kerri Willerford.
![Dark blue sky with a starry band of the Milky Way, reflected in dark glassy water.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/02/mulligan-swamp-south-australia-milky-way-Feb2019.jpg)
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Mullinger Swamp, South Australia. Photo by John Carter.
![Bright moon and planet over rocky cliff coast with very big rock in the sea.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/moon-venus-Dec4-2018-ainsley-bennett-freshwater-bay-e1544020581100.jpg)
The moon and Venus over the UK’s Isle of Wight, via Ainsley Bennett Photography.
![Saucer-shaped cloud hanging solitary above flat cracked brown desert.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/lenticular-cloud-andes-orion-dec2018-yuri-beletsy-e1545338834902.jpg)
Yuri Beletsky captured this lenticular cloud on a mid-December night in the Chilean Andes Mountains.
![Silhouettes of a man with his arm raised to throw, 3 golden retrievers, on a beach - yellow-orange sunset background.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/01/beach-sunset-12-24-2018-Matt-Myers-Seaside-Oregon-e1547825365823.jpeg)
Fetch! Seaside, Oregon, at sunset. Image via Dawn Gimbel-Myers.
![Blanket of blue flowers in partly sunny woodland, large trees in background.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2016/04/bluebells-scotland-e1492612391689.jpg)
A bluebell woodland in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Photo by Alison Moodie. She writes, “It is silent and the air is full of the perfume of a million wild bluebells.”
![Tall, thin waterfall on rocky cliff lit by an orange glow.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/02/firefall-Yosemite-Natl-Park-2-17-2019-Mike-Mezeul-II-e1550587300706.jpg)
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | For a couple of weeks during the year – if the western horizon stays clear – the last few minutes of daylight fall perfectly on Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls, making it glow as if on fire. Photographers call it the firefall.. @MikeMezPhoto on Instagram captured this image on February 17, 2019.
![Curtains of green light reflected in still lake with trees on distant edge.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/northern-lights-alaska-manish-mamtni-e1492626192445.jpg)
Northern lights in Alaska by Manish Mamtani Photography.
![Brown mountains receding into misty distance under yellowing sky.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/mahabaleshwer-hills-station-valley-e1492625906687.jpg)
Happy Earth Day from Karthik Easvur. Valley in Mahabaleshwar Hill Station in India.
![Blanket of yellow flowers under spring tree foliage.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/georgia-field-wildflowers-april-e1492721243318.jpg)
Big Creek Greenway, Cumming, Georgia. Photo via Jessica Schilke.
![Divided short waterfalls over green rocks, lots of tall bare trees.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/waterfall-tom-wildoner.jpg)
Photographer Tom Wildoner said, “This is an area inside Lehigh Gorge State Park, Pennsylvania, that I have named ‘Mossy Glen’. A wonderful secluded spot with moss-covered rocks as far as you can see, gentle running water always running around and over them.”
![Pebbles on bare ground, view from above. One larger reddish one.](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/rock-small-earth-day.jpg)
Kristal Alaimo-Moritz Klear wrote, “Even the small things matter. San Simeon, California.”
![Purple wildflowers on green rolling hills, mountain in background.](https://en.es-static.us/upl/2014/04/sharr-mountains-kosovo-e1555697359779.jpg)
Sharr Mountains National park, Kosovo. Photo via Yzer Berisha.
![Huge white semicircle over brown field with road and wire fence in foreground.](https://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/10/fogbow_Lynton_Brown_Australia-e1475405187251.jpeg)
Lynton Brown of Australia captured this fogbow over a barren field.
![Stars above, clouds lit from below, many faraway lightning strikes.](https://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/04/lightning-starry-sky-composite-central-valley-california-scott-toste.jpg)
Starry skies and lightning strikes over Central Valley, California. Composite image by Scott Toste.
Bottom line: Photos in celebration of Earth Day 2019.
Source:
https://earthsky.org/earth/gallery-best-images-of-earth