Photo of the Day

February 12, 2020

Green and Blue

In Wisconsin, a dense forest grows around a glacier-made lake. This picture appears in the August 1977 issue, in a story that tracked the Ice Age through the state of Wisconsin.

Photograph by CARY WOLINSKY, Nat Geo Image Collection

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