There were dozens of bunny rabbits hanging out around the community garden on Lopez Island when I camped there last summer. They seemed appropriate to share today.
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Complementary Fritillary
A fritillary caught me by surprise, and tossed me from where I stood in my front yard on an overcast spring day to a garden in Scotland where I stood on an overcast spring day fifteen years ago. It was the first time I ever saw the curvaceous little flowers with the grid-pattern petals. That’s not quite true. I had seen them in pictures a few days earlier when I toured the Charles Rennie Mackintosh house inside the Hunterian Art Gallery. Read More
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Irises in Kyoto
Just a pretty picture of a Japanese garden. I think it was in Kyoto, but I don’t remember which one.
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Auspicious Bird
That is not a statue on the rock. Cranes really do stand around posing for watercolors in Japanese gardens.
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Cactus Flower
A cactus flowering in a pot in my mom’s Arizona back yard. There is beauty in the desert. But to see it, you have to be either very lucky, or plant it yourself.