lanterns

Sacramento Betsuin's Obon festival.

bombus

As always, click to enlarge.

specimens

Stuffed birds at the Smithsonian's Division of Birds.

moss-covered

Each fruiting body of this moss extends only about half an inch from the surface of this broken stump, raised on a delicate, hair-thin filament.

cosmos

a bug's eye view.

portal

An old arch on the UVa grounds, across the "Dell Pond".

seedling

Transplanting yellow monkeyflower seedlings at my summer internship. I tweezered 1392 of these, one by one...a micro-version of meditative gardening.

knot

greenery in new york

Also, remembering Virginia Tech today.

burnt

Another from Patagonia--a memento of a unattended camp grill that started a forest fire in the 80s, licking through a huge swathe of forest in the park that we were hiking (can't remember the name now).

stripes

5 p.m. near my apartment--there's a little triangular median that has all these crepe myrtles and it's one of my favorite places on grounds.

a precursor

glimmer

Taken at the National Zoo, in "Amazonia", where they have fish that are seriously 8 feet long.

chesapeake bay

Taken at a friend's home in Shady Side, Maryland. Before we marooned the jetskis in the deceptively shallow water.

japanese beetle

These beetles are terrible pests, but they look like little brown and green beads.

fairytale...

if you ignore the cars, brick, and bright red fire hydrant.

inner DC

A vandal with a sense of humor AND the dedication to actually go out and buy cynical stickers.

signs of life

singular

Not sure why there was only one of that particular footprint.

maturity

isn't hacking a cussword into a tree.

paine grande

One of the main mountains of Patagonia, the most beautiful place I've ever been.

DU by night

pollinator

Up until yesterday, I had forgotten that bumblebees existed.

fringes

Looks creepy--it's just rainwater.

tendril

Little dead ivy runner that I found while walking home.

Happy April Fool's Day!