On a Leaf after Rainstorm

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." - Henry David Thoreau

Startled Rabbit

Think I surprised this rabbit when I came by early in the morning.  He paused long enough for me to get a few pictures, which they usually don't do when I'm this close.

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you.  But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. " 

"A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass."

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

Spring Mushrooms

Mushroom Cluster May 2016

"Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly

Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.

...

We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot’s in the door."

-Excerpted from Sylvia Plath's "Mushroom" poem

I don't think anyone could explain them better.