A child sporting face paint examines northern pike caught at the Tip-Up Town USA ice-fishing festival on Jan. 25, 2020 in Houghton Lake, Mich. The festival, now 70 years old, takes place on the last two weekends of January at a boat launch on the lake's southern coast. In addition to the ice-fishing contest, featured events include a pie-eating contest, a frozen turkey-bowling contest, and a polar dip.
An elderly woman makes a phone call while sheltering in the Midland High School gym after being displaced by catastrophic flooding on May 21, 2020 in Midland, Mich. The May 19 failure of the Edenville Dam in the wake of heavy rainfall drained Wixom Lake and caused the Tittabawassee River to crest at a record 35 feet.
A male Red-billed leiothrix seen tangled in a researcher's mist net on Tantalus, an extinct cinder cone volcano near Honolulu, Hawaii, on April 13, 2016. As Hawaii's native bird species dwindle, researchers are trying to figure out how well invasive species like the Leiothrix are filling in vacant ecological niches.
Savannah Lintz takes a break from sewing face masks to cuddle with her son, Lucas, 1, at their home on March 26, 2020 in Bay City, Mich. Because Lucas was born prematurely and still suffers from chronic lung disease, "social distancing" was nothing new to Lintz. "A cold or flu could kill Lucas," she said.
Vigil attendees light candles for the victims of the 2016 Orlando night club shooting on June 16, 2016 in Boston, Mass.
Saginaw High football players Dylan Moore, Veonta’ Tatum, Domitilo Borrero, Larry Atkiss, and Isaiah Paige (left to right) catch their breaths after sprinting a hill on April 21, 2020 in Buena Vista Charter Township, Mich.
A pair of anglers fish off the smoky coastline of Gold Bluffs Beach, Calif on August 19, 2017.
COVID-19 screening site personnel wait in the doorway of a shipping container doubling as a staging area on April 9, 2020 in Bay City, Mich.
Supporters cheer and wave signs as then 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders prepares to speak at a campaign rally on the University of Michigan campus on March 8, 2020, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Joy Binder, a PCA working for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, soothes her client, Mikey, at his home on March 22, 2018 in Norwood, Mass. Mikey is blind, autistic, and nonverbal and responds well, especially when anxious or distressed, to a sense of deep, enveloping touch.
Taylor Thomas (left), 3, peers over a pew at Holy Communion Gospel Center as Yvette Montgomery (right) clasps her hands in prayer on March 8, 2020 in Saginaw, Mich.
Graisen Wallace, 6, watches a video in his blanket fort, while taking a study break at home on March 20, 2020 in Bay City, Mich. Graisen's teacher recorded virtual lessons for him to follow along with remotely after schools closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dylan Blue operates a chainsaw during a sawyer certification course for wildland firefighters on April 25, 2021 in Kings Valley, Ore.