Mom tending to the windowsill pileas

Bumblebee/humla. Värmland, Sweden (May 17, 2020).

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)

Iron butterfly gates

Hand Painted Insect Tights by almamidesign

Wald by Martin Fellmann

saywasp

sweater designs by kaffe fassett, pub. 2007.

Inosculation, a natural phenomenon in which trunks, roots or branches of two trees grow together. When branches or roots from different trees are in prolonged intimate contact, they often abrade each other exposing their inner tissues, which may eventually fuse.

The ancient gnarled roots of a Bristlecone Pine, clinging to life in the harsh, high-altitude environment of the White Mountains, California.

streetlamp across the way hidden by the trees