Zinnia petals unfurl in little scrolls

[concretekiss]

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

Comments

wolves in tuxedos

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

ha! i can imagine how confounding to your toddler brain. and then when they wear glasses stereotypically like turtles are natural nerds?

one of my earliest mind blowing moments was seeing the b/w king kong, and the confused feeling of fear and sympathy all at once.

Why would you acquire a giant gorilla and chain him up? Why not ride him around and scare girls?

[crooksandlucy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what was that about? Are literary folk supposed to be just a bunch of shy-shells? Why, then, not softcover snails or novel nautili? Were they only trying to push reading on the especially reclusive? 'Cause they certainly didn't have to.

i would scare teachers but to each his own!

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

the cephalopod is more calculated and hidey, but then lots of animals hide from us. hmm, and why do spectacles indicate literary interest?! i remember my mother complaining my nose was always in a book. once she grounded me frm fiction!

Banned from books---NO WAY.

[crooksandlucy.livejournal.com]

I recall a bookmark with an octopus page-turning through eight different books*. The odds that he could read that many at once are as low as those that suggest he would be finishing the page in all eight simultaneously.
LAUGHABLY LOW.

Also, I hope your kids are in constant danger of novelanches.

*It didn't say, but should have said, "Books are Tentacool!" or "Reading is Octopodiforme(ē)!"

or "don't be a sucker, read some damn books"

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

a chameleon could read at least two books at once i bet!

i just realized that owls are considered very smart yet have badass peepers. all this science i don't understand.