Making a friend interrupted

I was on my way to work yesterday morning when I saw this tree.  I thought the twisted root looked interesting, and stopped to take a picture.  A woman and her dog were walking in front of me, but the woman had to stop to clean up the purpose of their walk.

While the woman was bending over with a plastic bag, the dog attempted to introduce himself, to tell me he likes that tree trunk too, and he never uses that spot because he doesn't want to offend the tree.

I thought about asking the owner if I could take a picture of her dog, but it was barely a quarter past 8 in the morning on a Saturday.  I figured the woman might be looking forward to going back to sleep after having taken her dog out for a walk.  Or the dog owner might want to talk, not knowing that I was on my way to work and barely had enough time to be distracted to take a picture of this tree, never mind make friends with people who are only neighbors of my employer.

A week in Virginia

 A deer by the side of the road.

A more shy deer.

 

How much ground does a groundhog hog?  We saw this little guy crawl under the dock and he hid there for a while before venturing out.

 

 

I don't think groundhogs hog the ground at all.  They give each other space.

Here are more wallpaper options..

Goth wallpaper

I don't know if this is also goth wallpaper, or if this is where the giant took a few steps.

A Rorschach test under the influence.

But did anyone HEAR it?

Greek ruins seen from the roof

Here’s a view of the Parthenon, as seen from the bar on the roof of the Brown Acropolis Hotel.

A Fall Sunday in the Garden

 I don't know what happened to this tree's limb.  It looks like it was trying to leave quietly, but what is with that ripped bark above?

Fields of lilles, fading fast

A single rose is meant to last

Blue petals strewn most everywhere

The butterfly says "no, not there!"

The birds.....

 I saw this on Broadway at 97th street and I'm still disturbed by it.

 

 

 And then we got a little closer....

Roses with butterflies in August

A butterfly on blue.

 

A butterfly in profile 

Drinking pollen upside down.

Stepping off the polinator

 

A butterfly disguised as a fish.

Prickly roses coming to greet you.

Roses languishing in the heat.

 

A rose urging you to follow.

Hester Prynne's rose.

This is not Hawthorn's rose.

Roses in June 2022

I'm putting these up now and making cute captions later.