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The Best In Us

Lisa S. French
February 14, 2024

Nature is loved
by what is best in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy St. Valentine’s Day.

xo

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Cute Maine Coon — “Again with the blinking… I guess she wants attention”

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Stella at Window — A very important component of biodiversity

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The Upside-Down Boys

Stump-tailed macaque monkeys — Stump-tailed macaques

“Kindness is contagious. Pass it on.”

Super pooper and orange recycled krill — Super pooper and orange recycled krill.
Our first and last poop pop-up. Apologies.

Halloween pumpkin — Sleeping-with-the-lights-on scary! Boo!

Black Bird Mural - Fish Crow — Fish Crow by Hitnes, 3750 Broadway, New York, NY 10032

John James Audubon — John James Audubon

April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851

Graveyard at the Church of the Intercession in the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum at 155th Street and Broadway.

Furry moth — Not your run-of-the-mill sweater muncher.
“It goes without saying, but feast your eyes!”

Male weedy sea dragon with eggs drifts along ocean floor under Flinders pier — A male common seadragon carrying eggs.
“I got this.”

Leafy Seadragon and stamp — The leafy seadragon is a protected species.
“I’ve made it to the big time, I’ve got my own stamp. Do you have your own stamp?”

“Why, yes, we can get there from here. Ready, set, migrate!”

Robin and Butterfly — “So do I take the first left, or the first right, after the North Sea?”

White Goose With Orange Beak — “I have heard the humpbacks singing, each to each. Thrilling!”

Echidna in the wild in Australia — “Sun on my face, wind in my quills—life is good.”

Rufus bettong - australian animal — “Is there no rest for a weary bettong?”

Close-up of Tasmanian Bennett's wallaby or Red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogreseus) at Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park in Tasmania, Australia. — “You can’t see me, but I can see you.”

Hairy Nosed Wombat — “Feeling very sadly about this.”

Fennec Fox large ears — Wi-Fi? So old-school! These ears are 7G!

American Flag - Green — Totally tree-rific!

Whitebark Pine (pinus Albicaulis) Overlooking Mammoth Hot Springs In Yellowstone — Whitebark pine, Yellowstone National Park

Blooming Magnolia Tree In Botanical Garden Of Montreal Canada — Magnolia tree: blooming beautiful!

Bunny - Where are the jellybeans? — I see that you have jelly beans. I too like the jelly beans!

Pi Day special homemade blueberry pie baked in a skillet overhead view — Blueberry Pi. Perfect for a face-plant!

Elephant trunk heart — Yeah, okay, but can you do this?

Burning Sparkler With Blurred Bokeh Cities Light Background — 100 blog posts = sparklers + cake mountain!

Garden lights — After 24 hours, the snow is about one-and-a-half basset hounds tall. Dog completely gone.

Exercising on the inside — Strenuously exercising on the inside!

Tarsier — “It’s going to be alright!”

Rooftop pine tree glow — A Charlie Brown kind of tree for a Charlie Brown kind of year. Keep on glowing, imperfectly perfect pine!

Snow leopard lunging — If you want to run with the big cats, you’ve got to get off the deck!

Owl Roost — Thanks for the perfect pine perch! You are more than owl-right!

Flower anthers — Pollen-producing anthers of a columbine

Turtle - Close Up — Hey! How you doing?

Black Lion Tamarin — Caterpillars! You will not elude me!

Cotton Top Tamarin — That’s right – beauty and brains! Behold the splendor!

Beaver orange teeth — Got white strips?

Sleeping Bee — This is how we do it!

Sloth - Maybe later — Sure, okay… Well, maybe later.

Okapi tongue — Prehensile tongue = Finger substitute. Excellent for plucking leaves from hard-to-reach places.

Okapi Forest Giraffe — “See you soon.”
“Not if I see you first!”

Goat — Who needs a rearview mirror!

Cat eyes — Vertical slit pupils of Felis catus (aka Domesticus housecaticus)

Crocodile — Free for lunch?

Cute Maine Coon — Got treats?

Sleeping tiger

Sleeping baby koala

Wild Flowers - Bokeh — Print me!

Tawny Frogmouth - Regal — Beak tufts may protect against stinging scorpions and centipedes.

Baby Tawny Frogmouth — Behold the fluffy baby feathers!

Tawny Frogmouth Angry Look — You call me a goat-sucking frogmouth again, and I’ll show you who the gouty old man is!

Tawny Frogmouth — You call me frogmouth again, and I will show you who the gouty old man is!

Tawny Frogmouth looking like a tree branch — Being the tree.

International Women's Day — International Women’s Day

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