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Peek a boo! Orchid blossom beginning to open in our backyard. #orchidstagram #orchidflower #orchid #flowers🌸 #flowersofinstagram #flower https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5UCiCHdsO/?igshid=1m30sy2icqhni

Cloudscape yesterday afternoon. #clouds #cloudscape #cloudsofinstagram #reflection #reflections #reflectionphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2d9LYHjBm/?igshid=6rsftk25087y

Floating like feathers in the air, these long tips of fountain grass dance back and forth, swirling in the slightest breeze—nature’s streamers celebrating each day’s miracle. #fountaingrass #dailymiracles #feathery #frontyardgarden #sarasotaflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGz7Jshnlsa/?igshid=1drrvdshjoar7

Soft shadows, like strokes of charcoal, out of somber endings, the seeds of new life. #shadowwork #shadows #seeds #futurevision #backyardgarden #fallgarden #florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGsjwT-HoZ7/?igshid=ppemglwht96h

Morning visitors. I spotted these two raccoons—mama and baby—in our backyard this morning before going on my walk. The picture was taken through a screened window so please forgive the blurry focus. #raccoon #raccoons #raccoonsofinstagram #mamaandbaby #morningvisitor #backyardvisitor #sarasota #florida #wildlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpSnKHHr_3/?igshid=1em0px89apjgg

These bougainvillea blossoms look like someone’s intricate paper cuttings or like a special origami design opening in the afternoon sunlight. #bougainvillea #blossoms #origamiart #paperdesign #pinkpetals #flowerart #flowers #flowersofinstagram #flowerstagram #florida #flowersinflorida #sarasota https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnc6v5H_ql/?igshid=js8pfu5llalf

Oh that bright yellow, like a beam of light shining from within, each petal pulsing with life. #radiatinglight #pulsingwithlife #yellow #light #lightwithin #flowers #flowersofinstagram #flowerstagram #sarasota #florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkfsQUn49X/?igshid=1427gk8sctlut

A pair of Sandhill cranes flying overhead this morning, the air filled with their squawking calls announcing their arrival, wings outspread as they search for a place to land. #Sandhills #sandhillcrane #sandhillcranes #inflight #flight #flying #florida #birdsofinstagram #birdsinflight #sarasota https://www.instagram.com/p/CGh4iuzn2Lz/?igshid=mcouhu6qh2gg

The coreopsis blossoms are still bursting with light in our front yard as if they spent all summer soaking up the sunlight and now are fountains of light pouring back that light into a world that grows darker each day as the seasons change and winter approaches. My guess is that long after the blossoms fade, the memory of their light will warm us in the days ahead. #coreopsis #blossom #yellow #petals #frontyardgarden #florida #flowersofinstagram #flowers #flowerstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CGaIWPFHqWn/?igshid=ruvzx975zhmh

This hibiscus bloom looked like it was floating in the air this morning, a parasol spinning in the light, a silken parachute drifting to earth. #hibiscusflowers🌺 #hibiscusflower #hibiscus #flowers #flowerstagram #flowersofinstagram #red #floatinginair #florida #flowersinflorida #sarasota https://www.instagram.com/p/CGYNytbncz3/?igshid=118uiyzd0rphi

A crown of blossoms on this Crinum lily in a neighbor’s yard, each flower like a jewel in the crown, its petals radiating light. #flowers #flowersofinstagram #flowerstagram #flowerlovers #flowerlover #flowerlove #florida #flowersinflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGU_SojHwCJ/?igshid=90blk2c34oqn

Petals unfurling, swirling, twirling, uncurling... #blossoms #blooming #red #unfurling #spirals #swirls #twirling #uncurling #florida #flowers #flowerstagram #flowersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CGI1sFBnUKx/?igshid=1hht8s4rod81

Fall has arrived in Florida. How do I know? The tips of the Muhly grass in our front yard are beginning to feather out, the grass iridescent in the autumn light, adding color to the yard as the other plants—the flowering vincas and blanket flowers and coreopsis and rosin weed —begin to fade. Every year, a reminder of time passing, of each season’s transformation from moment to moment. #muhly #muhlygrass #irridescent #feathering #signsoffall #florida #frontyardgarden https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFagjBnF1-/?igshid=1kh1qy4gd21xx

Along the drainage ditch where the ground is wettest after a storm, I found a patch of wildflowers yesterday morning, their tiny blossoms barely as tall as the grass casting a bluish purple hue on the edge of the path as if seen through tinted glass. #wildflowers #purple #blue #fieldofblooms #morningwalk #sarasota #sarasotaflorida #florida #flowersinflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGC-xIrHWc4/?igshid=fikfn505uhyx

“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley #infinity #leaf #linesandshapes #naturephotography #naturelovers #naturesbeauty #florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CGARv_CHuDz/?igshid=kejas9l6r0of

Crisscrossing currents formed a textured pattern of ripples yesterday on the calm surface of Sarasota Bay where every so often a mullet leaped out of the water in an arc that—for just a moment—looked like a miniature rainbow before it was gone, hidden again beneath the surface, leaving only the memory behind. #ripples #crosscurrents #crisscross #patterns #patternsinnature #sarasotabay #florida https://www.instagram.com/p/CF9-tNaH_P_/?igshid=1hfsf67pbwof9

Bromeliads this morning welcoming the rain, leaves glistening beneath my umbrella. #bromeliad #bromeliads #bromeliadsofinstagram #rain #rainyday #glistening #leaves #florida #sundaymornings https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6_gngnd0d/?igshid=gkfberx3255f