Nikki’s Photography

Avocado Leaf, caterpillar munched heart-shape. The Heart Shapes in Nature website is temporarily only one static page. The calendars need updates and will be available online again this week..sorry for the inconvenience. If you would like to place an order or purchase any of the images as framed or unframed prints or calendars, please contact me at nikki_coulombe@hotmail.com

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i carry your heart with me by ee cummings

i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is you doing, my darling
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s whatever you are a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of a sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart.
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

During winter the Avocado leaves become very crisp, and when crumbled in the hands the scent is kind of like licorice.

Ice on the back yard pond; we had our first true frost last night.

Croton garden plantings at the Cotton Bowl Stadium,

 Texas State Fair grounds, Dallas

Downtown Dallas, Texas

 Redbud leaf, summer rain, northeastern Texas

  Title: Munch Marks

  Artist: Anonymous Caterpillar

  Dimensions: each hole approximately knee-high to a grasshopper 

  Medium: Mixed media; Canna leaf, Chlorophyll, Sunlight, etc.

  Priceless

Heart-shaped Redbud leaf on a two year old young tree.

 Somerset Maugham said, “There is never enough time for love and art”.

To elaborate:

There is not enough time for love of trees and art.

It’s Green, baby!

The changing seasons in Texas are not as dramatic as in the North. There’s more time to appreciate the cooler weather and enjoy the colors of lingering leaves. Autumn here is all about extremes though; AC on during the day and furnaces on at night. 

Petals in the wind blowing off the remaining white Crepe Myrtle flowers remind me of the snow already flying up north. It’s so beautiful today.