Zinnia petals unfurl in little scrolls

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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

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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.

mmm like thumbelina

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