concretekiss | Zinnia petals unfurl in little scrolls

Peonies burst open like crumbled balls of paper

Rescued barn owls live in the Austin Nature and Science Center like a sweet elderly couple

One could lose herself in the black, mirrored and abysmal eyes of a barred owl

There is a quiet, dry creek bed behind the raptor exhibit,
with maidenhair fern along a vacant water line

Calcite is found in many stalactites, stalagmites, and marine animal shells

Turtle spines are like ship hulls

My city within a park

Mission impossible

Sometimes we get siamese gerbera daisies at the shop, which no one likes but me

Big Mama - Daigremontiana, grows babies on the edges of her leaves, which
parachute down into the soil nearby and take root

A copious tulip

Bordered Patch, Chlosyne lacinia, loves coreopsis flowers.

Spatz, the resident bum at my work, loves napping all day in the beaded animal display