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A multicolored zinnia sits atop a jaunty stem with full leaves. The flower is in mid-bloom, the unfolded center appearing red, the first layers of petals greenish yellow, and the outer petals shades of orange. It is extremely crisp in beautiful daylight.
A cluster of velvety, red dianthus flowers stands out against a background of bright green foliage.
"the ladies" is embossed on a plaque set into a broken brick wall.
A beautiful, fully open red lily in the shade of a tree. A beam of light shines into its center, the stamens casting a shadow on the golden yellow core.
A branch laden with thick clusters of pink flowers, from fuschia to baby pink, reaches out into the cloudy sky.
Chokecherry flowers: linear clusters of five petaled white flowers with yellow stamens, surrounded by bright fresh green foliage.
Virginia bluebells: bell-shaped flowers in shades of pink, blue and purple, occuring in clusters at the end of a green, leafy stem.
A big snow drift. In the background you can see a parking lot with cars covered in snow and some trees. In the mid ground is the edge of a blue fence and a big tulip tree trunk.
A colored pencil and fineliner pen drawing of a green frog with a little red tomato on its head
An Elvis-Presley-Bust Lamp sitting on a table. He seems to be wearing his iconic white suit and has the lamp's chord wrapped thrice around his neck. A shelf of various Snoopy plushies looks down on him from behind.
Green moss and lichen growing on the crook of a trimmed tree trunk. in the background is a white shed. The sky is cloudy.
A landscape image of the sky over a highway with light traffic at sunset. There is a dense, flat cloud so large it's as if the sky has a stripe all the way across: deep cloudy blue above, and sunset colors below the stripe.
The book Herculine by Grace Byron laying on a multicolored blanket. The cover of the book is all black and green and features an illustration of a face half submerged in green flames, with horns sticking out of the flames behind the flames.
My hand with keffiyeh-patterned nails holding a yellow-orange ceramic mug with a candy corn motif. Behind that is the garden, some late season greenery clinging to life in the cold.
Boots with ground red rose petals worked into the treads
A close-up of vibrant lantanas in orange, pink, purple, red and yellow.
The Candy Witch skirt on a mannequin. It's a cute, halloween-themed drawstring patchwork skirt many different spooky cute textiles featuring witches, potions, pumpkins, and candy.
A patchwork skirt on a mannequin. The skirt features artful celestial-themed tye dye batik fabrics in oranges, pinks, blues and greens and has moon phase trim.
A pile of pumpkins! A very large reddish orange one is in the back,in the front on the bottoms are big perfect orange ones and on top of them are smaller orange pumpkins and one white pumpkin.
Four circular polymer clay pendants with mirrors in the middle- the two on top are red around the mirror and green around the outside like a watermelon, and the bottom two are green with black stripes
A perfectly formed, freshly bloomed china rose. Its buttery petals are pink at the ends and fade to cream and yellow in the center. The bright sunlight makes the shadows look smooth and stark.
A blurry, translucent white figure outdoors at night.
My hands laid flat on a counter to display my knuckle tattoos which say "let's read" in rainbow script, with floral designs in the text
A red, yellow and white china rose bud with only two of its variegated petals open
A skinny, long watermelon cut open on a cutting board. A red knife lay next to it.
A fuzzy bumblebee perched on a vivid, creamy yellow marigold
A fuzzy bumblebee clings to a pale purple spearmint flower
Four plump figs in my hand
A fuzzy bumblebee clings to the golden yellow center of a fluffy pink Cosmo flower
Two L-shaped, multicolored crochet panels laid flat mirroring each other. The one on the right is a little smaller than the one on the left.
Green figs growing on a young tree. The branches have small figs sprouting from every leaf node.
A fuzzy bee clinging to the bottom of a pokey yellow clover flower
A watermelon on the vine shaped like a butternut squash, leaning against a rock
Piglet from Winnie the Pooh making a disgusted face
A flower that resembles broccoli in shape with big clusters of tiny pink flowers- some light pink and some dark pink.
A monarch butterfly resting on a bright pink zinnia. Its wings are orange and black, with white speckles on the edges.
A beautiful, golden and deep red sunflower facing the camera
A close-up picture of a bright pink, fasciated (double-headed) zinnia, its heads combining in a nearly perfect oval with only a couple of misformed petals.
A cicada molting on ripening raspberries
A huge pumpkin hiding under the cover of pumpkin leaves which are about 18' across
A small garden area teeming with lilies, nasturtium, squash, melons, sage, black eyed susans, rhubarb, and more
A big bee, covered in thick white pollen, sliding down into the red middle of a pink hibiscus flower which is slippery wet from the recent rain.
A gorgeous duo of wax begonias, with full yellow and pink petals. Water droplets gather on the lower petals.
A gorgeous fluffy peach-colored Chinese hibiscus flower surrounded by juicy green leaves
A fluffy white common garden peony in full bloom
A fluffy purple iris in full bloom
A gorgeous coral red and pale pink china rose. It's petals appear to be painted erratically with the two colors.
Two gorgeous purple clematis flowers on their vine creeping along the ground over the top of pale gray garden rocks
A bright fuschia peony in full bloom leaning into bushy, red wigelia
Two mealworm pupa lying on their backs, developing their beetle legs
A scruffy baby mourning dove poking out of a nest on top of a light
A bar of dark chocolate and a generous glass of white wine sitting on a beige faux marble counter
A purple iris flower in full bloom.
A cluster of white southern crabapple flowers (five petaled flowers with several spiny green stamens capped in golden pollen) with a bee gripping a petal on the bottom center flower.
A closeup picture of a cluster of Japanese Cherry flowers, or Sakura. They are dense, five petaled flowers averaging 3/4 an inch in diameter and their emerging buds in all hues of gorgeous fuschia. The multiple skinny red stamens have yellow dots of pollen on the end.
A closeup photo of a budding southern crabapple tree
Bright fuschia crabapple tree flowers
A big rhubarb plant with broad, rippled leaves and a pink, brown and green flower that looks like alien broccoli.
Curly baby fiddlehead fern coming out of the ground