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

..October morning in the garden..

All the  recent rain in Lewisville (Texas) has washed out a few reptiles into our neighborhood from the nearby canal…a Painted Turtle showed up by a neighbor’s garage and was the center of attention for a few hours until it was brought back to the canal area. The same neighbor found a snake in their garage earlier last week. Judging from their description it may have been a non-venomous Rough Green Snake.

 Redbud leaf, summer rain, northeastern Texas

 … another Green Anole photo … birds are lingering around the back yard more this year, so it’s good to see the anoles are still thriving.

 I knew this was a Salamander egg inside a warm, cozy half-buried clay pot because the parent scurried away just seconds before. I would not have disturbed it but was pulling weeds and tidying up that area of the garden. It was carefully put back inside, protected with leaves and grass clippings. If Salamanders are anything like Anoles, they lay eggs and do not return to care for them, so I don’t think handling will make a difference on whether it hatches or not.