I love the smell of Magnolia blossoms, and I think their flowers are beautiful, but I really love the central column. I think it evokes a kind of serenity.

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Just a lone strawberry plant under a tree. Every time I walk by this plant, I am looking for a tasty morsel.

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Said the spider to the bee. … Thank you for joining me for dinner.

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The trap is not the thorny part, but perhaps the trap was set here, amongst the thorns, just so that every other insect would be seeing the thorns, instead of the web.

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We walked down to Tecolote Canyon. Just around this corner is home, and a snack.

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That is the name I gave to the small spider lost amongst the spikes of this plant.

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Easily missed if you are not looking for them. They do seem to be fairly well camouflaged.

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