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

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD BARN OWLS

You know my mom actually rehabilitates raptors at a local clinic as a volunteer now that she's retired. If you guys ever come to visit, I'll take you there. My family's been a big benefactor over the years, so I could probably arrange a special "behind the scenes" tour.

the beads are his little friends

[vogdoid.livejournal.com]

gaaaaa so many adorable things! I OMGed out loud at the owls too

[mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com]

you are so beautiful. i'm glad yr my friend. you make my world more magical.

[twitchywrote.livejournal.com]

Blondie.

And barn/barred owls. What good times.

[chocolatebark.livejournal.com]

We should all be so lucky so as to have the spines of turtles

[simpletwice.livejournal.com]

The siamese daisy looks like an angry cartoon mouth. Grrr. Angry flowers!

[stefan11.livejournal.com]

bravo!

Ideally, if I wrote a book it would have pictures, too.

[crashing-buses.livejournal.com]

the beaded animals probably act like some kind of awesome back scratcher?

[tericol.livejournal.com]

Turtle spines, siamese gerber daisies and big mama. What a gorgeous picture post!

[clsisold.livejournal.com]

These photos are beautiful.

When I was a young child (as opposed to the old one I am now) I used to wish to be so small that I could live inside a flower, play all day in the maze of petals. There were times when I'd fall asleep thinking that this surely would be the night it happened but I'd wake the next morning full-size. Though this seems to have carried over into adulthood I don't think it's for the same reasons I wish I'd awake somewhat smaller.

[penguingod.livejournal.com]

What Jason said.

[phoenixsinking.livejournal.com]

The peony looks like something bloodstained and feminine. I want to wrap myself in it like a cocoon.


I miss you.

owls

[disorganization.livejournal.com]

OWLS

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subtitle: How The Macro Setting on My Camera Was So Awesome You Guys

[theazureman.livejournal.com]

I enjoy your clever captions as much as I do your photographs as much as I do their subjects. So there.

Also, The turtle spine reminds me of what would happen if you laid on a pew on shot the roof of a cathedral.

Also also, siamese gerberas look like colorful angry tiki gods.


Go Angry Tiki Gods!!

[browniegirl322.livejournal.com]

how does no one like the daisies? They are so purty!

is the Daigremontiana a succulent?



and also, i love turtles.

One could loose herself in those eyes

[crooksandlucy.livejournal.com]

I learned when I was very young that a turtle's spine is fused to its carapace. The first time I saw a cartoon turtle remove its shell for bed I. lost. my. mind.