The gateway to Faerie

Yucca flowers

They look so exotic.

Frogs are awesome.

I love frogs. They're so cute. I found this one hiding in a pile of building supplies. It was very dry out, hadn't rained in days, so I poured some water on the little guy and he seemed a lot happier.

Wood sorrel

I've been taking a bunch of pictures lately, and these are my favorites. :)

Lilies of the valley

Bluet

Forsythia flowers, time rifts, and... yellow Christmas stars?

It's December. Yep, that's a forsythia flower. Obviously there is a time rift somewhere in the area. Perhaps I should go tromping about, see if I can find it. If it manifests as a slash of glowing blue time energy it might easily be mistaken for Christmas decorations and ignored.

;)

Frost at last

First 28 degrees, in November? It seems crazy late to me. This is normal weather for a warm winter in this area, as I know quite well. The winter will most likely be full of record warm days and thunderstorms and hail. In some perfectly unexplainable way, that this should seem so strange to me is pretty peculiar. :P

Fog is beautiful.

People may think I'm crazy, but I like fog better than a sunny day. It hides ugly things and makes pretty things glow with beauty, gives everything an aura of mystery. Wide-open fields become as peaceful and shadowy as a forest. It's like stepping into a fairytale.

It also makes me miss Oregon. I'm sad when the sun emerges again, not the other way round, because the reverie is over. When I lived in Oregon, it was a little different -- in the Pacific Northwest, I can genuinely appreciate sunny days. But I'll always love fog, too, and rain, and storms.

Malina Lassë

Yellow leaf. :)





I love playing with the macro setting. :)

The heart of a flower, the wings of a butterfly

The spiders have decorated for Halloween.

I went outside on a wet, foggy morning, everything covered with dew, and discovered that there are spiderwebs everywhere. Seriously. The trees are actually draped with possibly dozens of spiderwebs, smaller, like those, or big and freakishly scary, like. . .

. . . that one. Yeah. :P I think I'm more afraid of spiderwebs than I am of spiders. With the exception of black widows and brown recluses. *shudders* I mean, I like little hopping spiders, or cute baby spiders in little webs on garden plants (they're killing the bugs! Yay!), and I know that makes me pretty weird for a girl, but big, brown, bouncy spiders hanging in places where people walk. . . at, quite possibly, nose height. . . yikes.

Fortunately, though, I'm short enough that they're often above my head. Haha. :)

A frog.

The bug is a fractal.

I have no idea what this bug is. I'm not even sure whether it's really a bug, since all it does when I poke it is quiver. It came from the top of the big ash tree in our yard -- the tree had split and needed to be cut down, and my brother spotted it when we started dragging branches out of the driveway.

Edit: I cannot believe it -- randomly surfing the web and I found another picture of the thing. It's called a Crowned Slug Caterpillar.

Monarch caterpillar