DAILY PHOTO: Lake Lanier

Taken in the autumn of 2011

Taken in the autumn of 2011

DAILY PHOTO: Flowers on a Pond

April 2012; Yellow River, Georgia

April 2012; Yellow River, Georgia

DAILY PHOTO: Vicuña in the Peruvian Wilds

Taken in Blanca National Reserve in 2010

Taken in Blanca National Reserve in 2010

DAILY PHOTO: Black Rhino

Taken at the Atlanta Zoo, Summer 2012

Taken at the Atlanta Zoo, Summer 2012

DAILY PHOTO: Buford Dam

The Chattahoochee at Lake Lanier

The Chattahoochee at Lake Lanier

DAILY PHOTO: Selbe River in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Selbe Gol

Selbe Gol; Taken in 2007

DAILY PHOTO: Easter Bunny

Maybe not "The Easter Bunny", but an Easter bunny

Maybe not “The Easter Bunny”, but an Easter bunny

DAILY PHOTO: Cabins at Seurasaari Island

Rustic cabins in the woods

Rustic cabins in the woods

DAILY PHOTO: Jekyll Island Live Oak

The underside of a Live Oak.

The underside of a Live Oak.

There’s nothing that creepifies a place more than live oaks and Spanish moss. Live oak is a tree species whose limbs stretch out impossibly far, like serpents or gnarled grasping fingers. Spanish moss is the shaggy vegetation that drapes down from the limbs. It isn’t actually a moss. The two grow together throughout much of the coastal Southeast.

Early Spring Haiku

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stalwart Beech tree
still gathering sunlight
on last year’s leaf

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dandelion
arrives to party first
eager flower

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a bud breaks open
its tiny leaf waves hello
welcoming the spring

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spring’s urgent leisure
flowers drop a fine pollen
to ride listless winds