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

the beads are his little friends

[vogdoid.livejournal.com]

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

they have adventures together at night when the shop is closed

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i am in love with the place. i didn't realize it was so closeby. there are great horned owls, an screech owls too! they will stare you right down.

Re: they have adventures together at night when the shop is closed

[vogdoid.livejournal.com]

there is a raptor rescue center right near where I grew up. They had all kinds of amazing birds. I went out to watch the releases sometimes.

that turtle spine is kind of haunting. All of these things make me wonder about why nature is so amazing.

Re: they have adventures together at night when the shop is closed

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

how cool to watch them be released. i've never seen
i took the kids to a preservation society demonstration once and was obsessed from then on. the trainer did all these amazing tricks and played with them. a bay wing hawk flew in low over the crowd and his tail feathers brushed my forehead!

i am often wondering why nature is so amazing, and feeling grateful i have the senses to appreciate it.