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

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.

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.