Landscape with a pond in the foreground and a volcano in the background.

Perfection

Exotic red flower with cone-like center surrounded by long red petals.

Strange red flower

Close up of two fully open bright yellow flowers with five lobe petals around a narrow trumpet.

Close up of two fully open bright yellow flowers with five lobe petals around a narrow trumpet.

Beautiful bright yellow trumpetish flowers!

Deep green pointed and lobed leaves with a bright pink, veined center covered in drops of water, surrounded by leaf litter and deep yellow palm leaves.

Not a flower, but beautiful leaves!

Tiny yellow flower - looks like a bowl as the petals are even and overlapping. The outer orange petals have turned back and can be seen from the side.

Tiny bright yellow flower with vivid orange outer petals.

Red lobe-like petals opening to reveal a black berry, long shiny green leaves.

Unusual red lobe-like petals splitting apart to reveal black berries sitting against shiny green leaves.

Pink flower with 5 narrow petals and a white center surrounded by large green leaves on a bed of brown leaf litter

I am back!

The first in a series of flowers.

Taking a break from posting daily. Be right back ...

Green treefrog with red eyes, orange toes and blue legs

Green treefrog with redeye, orange toes, blue legs, vivid yellow body stripes with blue segments. Dazzling!

Colorful treefrogs

Pale brown tree frog sitting on a large green leaf

Brown tree frog

Strikingly green frog peeking out of a hole in wood

Very green frog

Pale, blotched frog sitting in fir tree needles

Pale frog

Frog with a wide tan top stripe from its nose, between its amber eyes, along it back. Sides are paler with dark sponges. Sitting in brown leaf litter.

Frog with a wide tan top stripe from its nose, between its amber eyes, along it back. Sides are paler with dark sponges. Sitting in brown leaf litter.

Two views, one frog

Close up of a brown frog with amber eyes

Hello! Frog here 👋

Brown frog/toad with pale underside peeking out from leaf litter

Frog/toad in leaf litter

Brown froad/trog with white underside, sitting in leaf litter. Chilling.

Large froad/trog

Pale toad/frog with many darker brown blotches. Ridges down the back. Very cool.

Not sure if this is a frog or a toad. A froad? A trog?

Green tree frog with white belly on a branch

The first of a series of frogs ... with the occasional toad...

White and brown shelf mushrooms wedged in the crack of an upright log.

Wedged fungi.

Odd-shaped mushroom, white edge, brown center, taken from the side. Looks completely different when viewed from the top.

Odd-shaped mushroom, white edge, brown center, taken from the top. Looks completely different when viewed from the side.

Same fungi, different angle, so different!

More toffee-colored shelf mushrooms growing out of the side of a rotting log

Toffee fungi

Shiny toffee-colored shelf mushrooms growing out of the side of a rotting log

Shiny fungi

A profusion of brown and white mushrooms growing out of a rotting log

A profusion of fungi

White petal-like mushrooms growing out of the side of a log.

Festive fungi!

Merry Everything 🎉

A couple of white, frilly mushrooms growing out the side of the same log as a bunch of brown and white striped shelf mushrooms. The log has a generous portion of moss on the top.

A gathering of fungi

White edged reddish-brown shelf mushrooms growing out of the side of a rotting log

So much fungi!

White frondy, frilly fungi growing out of the side of a rotting log sitting in leaf litter

Strange fungi

Flat shelf reddish brown fungi growing out of rotting wood with bright green leaves and moss surrounding.

More fungi

Pale brown mushroom trail going up a log

Fungi village!

Thin semicircular fungi growing out of rotting logs. The fungi have light and dark bands. The fungi on the end of a facing log look almost like scales.

Back to the fungi! These are some of my favorites...