The following images are prints, photographs, drawings, or bookplates featuring animals and plants that I love. I have neither photographed nor otherwise created any of these images.
A Rhinoceros Beetle.
The Gorse flower.
The blossom of the Mountain Laurel.
Kalmia Latifolia.
A Vinegaroon.
AKA: Uropygids, Whip Scorpions.
Relax, folks. They're laughably harmless.
Venus Fly-traps.
I owned several of these when I was a boy.
Corn.
Yes: I love corn, and not just as a base for bread. It's gorgeous.
The White-Tailed Deer.
Henbit Dead-nettle.
Lamium amplexicaule.
A common South Carolina weed whose pollen helps Spring start up in the region.
Blue-Tailed Skink.
Cryptoblepharus Egeriae.
Trash Cat.
Felinus Disposae.
Night, Yonce's Field
William Wright
I am in Carolina,
fixed in a dark cathedral
of flowers. Oh Lord,
the night roads
snake the fields, coldly:
All the girls I've loved
sleep warmly
in the foxfire of dreams,
married, raced off
toward oblivion. God,
if I am to be
the stranger keen
to a ripe word's madness,
then blend deep autumns
in my hands.
From William Wright's book of poems, Dark Orchard.
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