small beauties: running water & tree secrets
no smartassery this time, it was just a really, really nice day
small beauties
small beauties: rocks, plants, & a forbidden staircase
With digressions into geology, but not botany.
small beauties: a gnome home!
… no, seriously, if I thought I’d fit I’d’a moved in RIGHT THAT MOMENT
small beauties: the delicate desert
[ A close view of long, narrow silver-green leaves, waving in the breeze, looking much like undersea fronds. The stems are paler and slightly more yellow. They greenery entirely fills the picture. ] First small beauties post from the new land! There’s SO much here that’s beautiful, I can’t wait to post more.
small beauties: spring is icumen in edition
[A small round cactus barely sticks out of tiny gravel. It’s no more than an inch across, sticks out of the ground less than half an inch, and is covered in tiny spines, all parallel to its surface.] Spring is, finally, coming in. I found a tiny cactus. Glad I didn’t find it with my …
small beauties: unexpected snow day
[Looking up through the trees — green ponderosa needles capped with tufts of snow, all in front of a deep blue sky veiled in sheer cirrus clouds. ] Friday there was surprise! Five inches of snow! It was LOVELY. Saturday I hadda go outside to take jewelry pics anyway, so I went for a lil …
small beauties: another snow day edition
[ Snow lays thick over hummocked ground. The sun shines through tall ponderosas; the sky around it veiled by wisp-thin clouds. ] It snowed all New Year’s Eve & into the next day, but the sun came out partway through the afternoon, & I just had to get outside with the camera. Snow on plants!
small beauties: beyond the back yard edition
[ A pyramidal, deeply eroded lump of coarse rock sits atop a treestump. Most of it is brown, but there are a few spots near the bottom, and one spot where it’s eroded more, that are white. ] This is a salt lick! Ask me how I’m so sure!
small beauties: finally some snow
[A copper wire pendant lays on top of a heavily weathered wooden fence post. The post is lightly dusted with snow. ] Taking jewelry pics in the middle of an actual snowstorm is, at the very least, pretty festive. Nice photo backdrops! Chilly feet! Beautiful scenery! Jewelry covered in snow!
