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A mossy surface, sloping up from left to right. to the right is a darker green, spiky-leaved moss tipped with reddish-brown (hair-cap moss) and to the left is a more chartreuse, smaller-leaved moss with a softer, more tubular shape. I have not identified it.   Electric blue damselfly with some black striping on its thorax and spots along its back, perching on and parallel to a branch roughly as wide as its leg span. Behind and above it, some pine needles are visible.   A wasp of some kind, black with some yellow striping, clinging upside down to a pine needle, its shaking blurring much of its body except a few of its reddish legs. It is eating a piece of something else insectoid that cannot be made out very clearly.   Another blue damselfly perching on an unclearly shaped, thinly spiderwebbed protuberance from a pine branch (needle cluster that failed to develop?). The very tip the damselfly is perching on has a pale green crust of lichen, as do a few spots on the branch.   An orange dragonfly viewed from above, perching on a sunlit patch of a log. Its compound eyes are chocolate brown, transitioning to a yellowy green along their sides. Its limbs are black, as is a sawtooth pattern on either side of its abdomen/tail. Orange pigment at the base of its wings stains the light cast through to the wood.   A mayfly on a log, it and the log extending perpendicular to each other across the diagonals of the frame. Its two tails appear shriveled at their ends.   Another of the orange dragonflies, more amber in color, viewed from above and to its left. The green of the side of its eye is more apparent at this angle. To its right is a translucent rock a bit smaller than its head. It stands on wet, glittering sand, grains mostly of tan, but also of white, grey, black, lime, red, brown and oranges.   In the center of an oxeye daisy viewed from the side is a yellow inchworm with brown spots along its back. It is rearing its head and pollen is visible sticking to its forelegs. The daisy in focus obscures two more to its right.   A sole daisy, with petals curling back and its center browning from yellow. On the petals on its left side is a pale yellow spider with some dull linear markings on its back (garden crab spider)   The garden crab spider, now under the base of a thin leaf on the daisy's stem. It clings with its back two pairs of legs while it extends its front two pairs outwards. Its mouthparts and a few beady black eyes are visible on its head, and black tips and a few coarse black hairs at the ends of its legs   A third view of the garden crab spider, having climbed around the stem to the opposite side of the leaf. It is now full-on T-posing with its front four legs. The lighting is now making the marks on its back look like a concerned, possibly screaming face (two pit eyes with a high, wrinkled forehead, and a round mouth)   Closeup of the center of a daisy, none of the ends of its petals visible in the frame. A tiny beige spider is standing in some kind of an alert pose near the base of a petal. It sort of looks like it's wearing a pair of cool grey shades or a visor.   A fairly adorable elm sawfly larva (easily mistaken for a caterpillar) crawling across gravel and sand. It is yellow, wrinkly and bumpy, with a black dot and a tentacular protrusion visible above each leg, a black stripe along its back, and black dot eyes.   a series of river falls, not steep but turbulent, between a brown stone cliff face on the left and trees on the right. a small path of white cloudy sky is visible in the center. in the foreground is some soil and rocks with some sparse greenery. a few small patches of greenery are interspersed in the river as well. the whole scene is damp.   an egret, neck arched, standing in a pond with scattered dull patches of pond scum. behind it are reeds, some lush dark green and some tan. the water reflects them, gaining dark green and brown hues.   view of a spring forest canopy. at the left of the frame, two tree trunks stand upright, one behind the other, and at the right of the frame leaning into the center are several more trees and their winding branches. the leaves are a pale yellow green and not yet fully grown, and all is dappled with shadow. plenty of pale blue sky is visible.   view of partly cloudy sky over some woods, leaves just emerging and appearing yellow. the bottom half of the image is a low, dense treeline, with one large oak filling the right of the frame, its branches so dark as to almost appear in silhouette. in the left half of the image stands a tall post with a platform atop it, with a nest atop that. there's a bird in the nest but at thumbnail resolution it's like 3 pixels.   view of spring woodlands, with verdant undergrowth and fairly widely spaced, thick tree trunks. they all look to be leaning one way or another. in the near foreground, out of focus, there's a tall, thin sapling with neat alternate rows of leaves and a branch of another sapling extending from the left side of the frame. behind it, in focus, taking up the left half of the frame, is a forked tree trunk. on the right-hand trunk there's a gnarly protrusion, short and terminating in a bent disc of concentric rings of bark. the sky is overexposed white and bleeding through the background of leaves   view of a shoot backed by out of focus leaf litter, dirt and sticks. the shoot is short but thick, with a deep red-brown stem, forking and terminating in yet unopened leaf clusters. some leaf surface is yellowy or green, but the tips are the same dark red. the stem and leaves are covered in fine white hairs, and around the leaf clusters the hairs are longer, forming very thin balls of fuzz. i don't know what kind of plant it is.   view of a sunlit field of tall green grass, with some unseen trees casting shadows across the bottom of the frame. extending into the left half of the frame, there's a fallen log with an arc of bare branches just above it. behind the log, much further back, is a stand of young trees. further still in the right half of the frame there's a stand of mature trees with young trees growing underneath. even further there's a raised wooden walking trail with railings, then towering streetlamps, power lines, parked cars, and a Target viewed askance.  
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"these photographs were taken over the greater part of a year. so much missing time between them... that's not terribly unusual - I generally skip winters, and hell, 2024 came and went in four pictures a page ago. but i don't document my own life well, nor do i remember it well, and too much of what i do remember is colored by stress and rumination lately. this might be the happiest record I keep of what i've seen and done, so the gaps can be scary." - The Artist