Hot and cold

Oak leaves and pine needles burrowing into the ice on the pond.

Scarborough, Maine

Pencil bouquet

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The other side of the mushroom

Whatever catastrophe befell this birch, it allowed me to see the tops and bottoms of some polypore mushrooms at the same time. I'm sure a similar phenomenon inspired Lewis Carroll.

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Scarborough, Maine

When is a bird not a bird

Bird-of-Paradise (Strelitzia reginae), Nairobi, Kenya

E'er blooming?

Kenya takes this Christmas carol literally (or at least it's remarkably rose-filled, in the middle of what I consider winter).

A rose, Nairobi, Kenya