The mangoes were all gone, but Mycena was waiting for us.

A female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail alights ever so gently on the flamboyant umbels of Joe-Pye Weed.

The buttonbush flower is a marvel: tubular florets radiate from a perfect sphere, with long stamens jutting out like viral spikes. It maximizes pollinator access—multiple pollinators can feed at once without seeing each other. No wonder the skipper here loves it.

Come, see real flowers of this painful world. —Bashō, tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto

Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers. —Kobayashi Issa, tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto

The sky was pretending it had nothing to do with the muddying of the waters.

Once, the world was just a flap away, now they linger as wistful relics of a past era.

Tree of the Spririts.

The rains flooded the meadow with greenery.

Inchworm, inchworm Measuring the marigolds You and your arithmetic You'll probably go far

Roux's Forest Lizard. I found this along the edge of a Western Ghat forest. It was very well camouflaged, as if a piece of rock had started to move. Do pinch the image to zoom in and view its beautiful skin patterns.

Summer.

Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts, their green leaves, so heavy and many, fill all day with the sticky sugars of the sun. —Mary Oliver

The Artist’s Conk suddenly came knocking out of the woods! Just look at how pretty it is. The upper side looks like a malformed dosa on a pan, while the underside hides its true artistry: pore patterns that bruise dark brown permanently, making it an excellent medium for art.

An orchard orbweaver guarding her egg case with her life—the spirit of the universal mother.

The vines were trying to fill the cup left behind by the fallen tree..

So profound, so universal, so human. The goal is to remove the clouds one by one, through practice.

She’s bowing to the rain gods.

There lies the sky.

They flow like rushing rivers gathering the blessing from sunlight.