Nikki’s Photography

Austrian Pine cones developing.. Madison, Wisconsin 1) like tiny cobs of corn 2) like shooting stars

Neighborhood Cypress, a favorite subject and series of photos taken at various times of day, seasons, and weather conditions since 2004. Lewisville, Texas

Dogwood blossoms, Lewisville, Texas

Scarlet Oak flowering and fresh new leaves, Lewisville, TX

Avocado Leaf, caterpillar-munched heart-shape.

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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.

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.

One Sweet World

Excerpt of One Sweet World by Songwriter Dave Matthews

Nine planets around the sun,

the only one with something there

Upon this watered one

so much we take for granted

If greens all turned to grey

would our hearts still bloody be?

…so let us sleep outside tonight;

lay down in our Mother’s arms

and here we will rest safely.

(The Dave Matthews Band)

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