Nikki's Photography

Croton garden plantings at the Cotton Bowl Stadium, Texas State Fair grounds, Dallas

This yellow pepper started rotting in just the right place so I cut eyes and made a Halloween Pepper.

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..October morning in the garden..

All the  recent rain in Lewisville (Texas) has washed out a few reptiles into our neighborhood from the nearby canal…a Painted Turtle showed up by a neighbor’s garage and was the center of attention for a few hours until it was brought back to the canal area. The same neighbor found a snake in their garage earlier last week. Judging from their description it may have been a non-venomous Rough Green Snake.

Frog and spider in my back yard pond, Lewisville, Texas

…a heart in the heart…

Redbud leaf, summer rain, northeastern Texas

… another Green Anole photo … birds are lingering around the back yard more this year, so it’s good to see the Anoles are still thriving.

Great garden find! I knew this was a Salamander egg inside a warm, cozy half-buried clay pot because the parent scurried away just seconds before. I would not have disturbed it but was pulling weeds and tidying up that area of the garden. It was carefully put back inside, protected with leaves and grass clippings. If Salamanders are anything like Anoles, they lay eggs and do not return to care for them, so I don’t think handling will make a difference on whether it hatches or not.

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Artist: Anonymous Caterpillar

Dimensions: each hole approximately knee-high to a grasshopper

 Medium: Mixed media; Canna leaf, Chlorophyll, Sunlight, etc.

 Priceless

Somerset Maugham said, “There is never enough time for love and art”.

To elaborate:

There is not enough time for love of trees and art.