Afro Latina flora is actually so near and dear to my heart

Precure Leaders (2004-2023)

it took me a while to finish all the pieces, but I'm so happy how they turned out <3

Newborn Promethea Moth

Malcolm X - 28 May 1963 - Los Angeles . Photo by Robert Flora.

#xthu

Hairy Starfish Flower. Treasure trove from cactus land. 1948.

Internet Archive

R.Tanaka - From the series " The Wedding of the Earth"

http://rafamonzo.tumblr.com   / http://tanaka-clan.tumblr

black, white and fragile

2024/04/12

hirogaru sky! pretty cure ♡ ending messages

↳ episode twenty eight → cure black

Fern Fronds

Daily Reminder:

Forgiveness is NEVER for the other person. It is ALWAYS for you. It is for your peace of mind. It is for your recovery. It is only, and will always be for you.

Dark Delights

Watercolor On Black Paper

2023, 11"x 14"

Black Chanterelle Mushroom, Horn of Plenty, Craterellus cornucopioides

A hike in the Cheat River Canyon on a hazy, mid-summer day brings a great many rewards, both large and small.

From top: Fractured and pitted sandstone gives testimony to the canyon's ancient struggle with the elements; black cohosh (Actaea racemosa or Cimicifuga racemosa), whose towering flower spikes stalk the old woods like magical beings; the colorful rock harlequin (Corydalis sempervirens), an endangered fumitory that haunts the canyon's rocky outcrops; pinesap (Monotropa hypopitys), a parasitic plant closely related to Indian pipe; spotted St. John's wort (Hypericum punctatum), which is distinguished from the invasive St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) by the numerous black dots on its flowers and leaves; downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), a shade-tolerant terrestrial orchid that favors oak-hickory woods; shrubby St. John's wort (Hypericum prolificum), a mounding, deciduous shrub of open, sandy woods; orange-fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), a stunning late summer beauty of Appalachia's moist meadows and open woods; a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) visiting a late-blooming milkweed; a silvery checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis) drinking up the nectar of a butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa); an American green crab spider (Misumessus oblongus) stalking a black-eyed Susan for its next meal; a large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) being perfectly beautiful on a lazy summer day; and last but not least, a hulking patch of eastern Jack-0'-lanterns (Omphalotus illudens), which contrary to what field guides say have never glowed in the dark for me (I love the toxic little beauties nonetheless).