Looking to escape from the rain, Louisville senior Jasmine Taylor walks down Avenue of Champions to a tent on South Lawn at Western Kentucky University Sept 1, 2012. The rain before WKU's first football game of the season caused Topper Walk, a pre-game tradition in which players, cheerleaders and marching band members walk to the stadium, to be cancelled.

Megan Hildebrand slides safely into home plate to score in the fifth inning of Aquinas Institute’s 5-3 loss to Geneva May 29 in the Section Five Class A2 championship game at the State University of New York at Brockport.

After celebrating Mass, Father Augustine Davis (left) and Father Cletus Miller move through the hallway connecting the Archabbey Church to the cloistered area of the monastery at Saint Meinrad Archebbey in Saint Meinrad, Ind., March 18, 2013. The community of monks begins its day with prayer at 5:30 in the morning followed by breakfast and silent, spiritual reading before Mass at 7:30.

Leading her teammates to the bus bound for the State Girls Basketball Tournament, senior Shay Walker sprays silly string on students lining the hallways of Greenbrier East High School in Lewisburg, W. Va., Wednesday, March 9, 2011.

Ni'Kerrion McDonald of Lexington works out a problem on the chalkboard in Mathematics during the Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth (VAMPY) Friday, July 1, 2016.

VAMPY camper Olivia Gilliam of Madisonville inspects her screwdriver before attaching two boards to be used for a Rube Goldberg machine in the STEAM Labs class July 3, 2015. The finished machine used a complicated series of tasks to complete a simple task.

Brittnee Dailey of Bowling Green has makeup put on by Brittany Cline before the opening of The Apocalypse Haunted Attraction at 1210 Church Street Oct. 5, 2012. Cline's husband, Sammy Martin, opened the haunted house for the first time in 2012. He and his children live for Halloween, Cline said.

Jenna Brooks (from left), Celina Rescott, Judy Rescott, Maggie Flurschutz and Mallory Colella dance and sing-along to "By the Love of God," the 2013 theme song for the National Catholic Youth Conference at the end of NCYC's opening ceremony Nov. 21, 2013, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Defending state champion Brandon Barnett, a senior from Harrison County, puts a hold on Union County senior Thomas Buckman in the 189 pound championship match at the Kentucky High School Athletics Association State Wrestling Tournament Feb. 19, 2011. Buckman went on to defeat Barnett, handing him his first loss in two years.

Eleven-year-old Liorell Gray tries to dunk over his cousin 13-year-old Thomas Maxey while playing basketball with their soon-to-be cousin, 12-year-old Meikiel Ya Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. The three were playing outside of Gray's home on Gatewood Drive in Bowling Green.

Six-year-old Keira Bailey of Glasgow prepares to go down a tunnel slide at Chaney's Dairy Barn Saturday Oct. 6, 2012. Chaney's held its annual Pumpkin Pickin' Festival Saturday and Sunday to celebrate its ninth anniversary.

Kindergartner Jackson Hickey takes a prayerful stance while Father Bob Ring gives a blessing over the new Early Learning Center at St. Louis School in Pittsford Sept. 20, 2013.

Olivia Taylor (left) and Isaac Bunch work out a problem together in Mathematical Patterns in Nature during Winter Super Saturdays Feb. 7, 2015.

inleigh Neal, a 3-year-old from Bowling Green, is encouraged to visit Santa Nov. 10, 2012, at Deemer's Flowers in Bowling Green. Murray McCandless of Elizabethtown played Santa at the store's Christmas open house. "I looked in the mirror one day, said 'I'm fat and have a white beard, what am I going to do?'" said McCandles, who is in his fifth year playing Santa.

Magnolia senior Aleshia Akin practices a backbend before a football game Oct. 17, 2009, while the Big Red Marching Band rehearses behind her outside Diddle Arena on the campus of Western Kentucky University. A backbend to touch a plume to the field before football games is a tradition for field commanders at Division 1 schools.

WKU plays the University of South Alabama Apr. 11 at Nick Denes Field. The USA Jaguars beat WKU 5-7..

Jonathan Willistein (from left), James Pike, Alice Swarthout and Jim Stocks pray at the end of a Bible study May 20, 2014, at the house they stayed at in Louisa, Ky, during a mission trip to the Appalachian region.

Anslee Tipton, 13 days old, captures the attention of her father, Reggie, as he prepares to begin his day as a pastor in Nancy, Ky.

A student musician rehearses in a practice hut during her evening free time at Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan. Now in its 83rd year, the camp is attended by around 2,500 students between the ages of 8 and 18 for two, three or six week stints.

Matthew Chapman of Fort Campbell closes his eyes while a classmate brushes baby powder over his makeup in Clowning during the Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle School Students (SCATS) Wednesday, June 17, 2015.

Lorenzo Mahoney of Prospect aims his egg drop container before letting it go from atop Parking Structure 2 Tuesday, June 23, 2015, during Problems You Have Never Solved Before at the Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth (VAMPY).

A competitor climbs a cliff during the BG Gauntlet, the first annual mud run held to benefit the Family Enrichment Center Aug. 25, 2012, at Phil Moore Park in Bowling Green.

While practicing with the Big Red Marching Band, freshman Jacquelyn Kinzer from Brentwood, Tenn., laughs with Scottsville junior Seth Tooley after Tooley missed catching her toss during a rehearsal Sept. 30, 2009, on Burchlee Field at Western Kentucky University's south campus. The band was preparing parts of a superhero medley that director Jeff Bright hoped to have ready for performance in time for the Oct. 17 football game.

Christina Bradley fights for the ball during the Women's Club Rugby Team's 10-69 loss to the University of Alabama Jan. 22, 2012, at the Preston Intramural Complex at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

The mens basketball team faces North Texas Jan. 28 in Diddle Arena. WKU lost to NTU 84-83 in overtime.

Novices Bradley Jensen (left) and Matthew Sprauer carry snacks back to the monastery kitchen at Saint Meinrad Archabbey after a party to celebrate the feast day of St. Cletus April 26, 2013. The monks celebrated the feast in honor of a monk who took the name "Cletus" after joining their monastery in Saint Meinrad, Ind. The monks are given a new name when they profess temporary vows as Benedictine monks after one year as novices.

The Milky Way core crosses the sky above Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky on May 22, 2025.

Pausing along their fall migration, monarch butterflies feed on rough blazing star near Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis Sept. 15, 2026.

Fall foliage surrounds Bean and Bear Lakes in Tettegouche State Park along Minnesota's North Shore on Oct. 12, 2025.

Fall colors mix with evergreen trees in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Oct. 20, 2026.

A beaver pauses while swimming up Mound Creek in Minnesota's Blue Mounds State Park, Oct. 25, 2026.

A group of pink lady's slippers blooms along a trail at Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center within Superior National Forest June 15, 2026, in Minnesota.

Bluebells bloom along Echo River Springs Trail at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky on March 31, 2024.

The sky reflects in East Bearskin Lake as the sun sets in Superior National Forest June 15, 2026, in Minnesota.

Pastel colors fill the western sky at sunrise as seen from Clingman's Dome (later renamed Kuwohi) inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee on Oct. 10, 2023.

The sun rises behind pine trees atop Cadillac Mountain inside Acadia National Park in Maine on July 31, 2023.

A snail crosses the Meigs Creek Trail inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee on May 21, 2023.

After diving for food, a loon feeds its 9-day-old chick on Saganaga Lake in Superior National Forest June 15, 2026, in Minnesota.

Foliage is reflected on Sprague Lake inside Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado shortly after sunrise Oct. 6, 2024.

Joshua Trees along Black Rock Canyon Trail are hit by early-morning sunlight at Joshua Tree National Park in California on March 1, 2022.

A bull elk keeps watch on a young elk and two females in the Oconaluftee River during the fall rut on Sept. 30, 2023, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina.

A trumpeter swan spreads its wings on the shore of Little Falls Lake in Wisconsin's Willow Wiver State Park Sept. 27, 2026.

A mother Black Bear stays close to her cubs in the Cades Cove area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on May 23, 2023, in Tennessee.

An American bison romps through tall grasses just before sunset at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky on Dec. 12, 2023.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky above Sunset Point at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky Nov. 6, 2021.

The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, fill the sky above the Green River at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky on Oct. 10, 2024.

At California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the bark of a coast redwood shows signs of recovery in November 2025, five years after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burned 86,509 acres, including 97% of the park.

Snowflakes cling to tree bark at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky on Jan. 11, 2025.

The sun sets off the coast of Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve in California on Nov. 2, 2025.