King!
Pika - British Columbia
Taken By Alexandre Crouzet
Vole
By Mike Powles / Getty Images
Kyle is hoping to find an audience with his 12-part series about chromatophores.
Tetley by Jennifer MacNeill // Miniature Pinscher
a 2015 Kenyan stamp depicting a Vervet Monkey
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Illustration from The Cat Who Went to Sea by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, pictures by Aurelius Battaglia. 1950.
by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
“Possum’s midnight snack”
Location: Malanda, Queensland, Australia
“Caitlin Henderson finds an unexpected guest on her balcony as a possum snacks on a large cicada. ‘There were heads here, wings there,’ Caitlin says. She had peeked out and spotted a common brushtail possum sitting on the windowsill. Quick reactions allowed Caitlin to photograph the possum hungrily dismembering a large northern greengrocer cicada while carrying a baby in its pouch. This nocturnal marsupial, native to Australia, is widespread and locally abundant. Its long, sharp claws are made for a life in the trees, but it has readily adapted to urban environments and come into conflicts with humans.”
by Caitlin Henderson, Australia
Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2023
Botanic Monday
Beautiful cactus blossom of a species in the genus Epiphyllum. #BotanicMonday SciArt by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for Revue Horticole (1898). View in @biodivlibrary with thanks to Harvard Herbaria & Libraries.