A gallery of simple magic and little moments of noticing.
These photos are from my recent wanderings.
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Site-wide photo credits: Marlowe Palmer and Bee Andressen

Close-up of a plant stem with a tiny budding leaf and a droplet of water, with a cloudy sky in the background.
Close-up of a green leaf with water droplets on its surface.
Two bare feet standing on wet, cracked mud with small fallen leaves scattered around.
Close-up of a hand holding a delicate plant with orange seeds and white fluff, standing on dirt ground.
A purple flower with multiple small blossoms on a stem, with a grasshopper resting on the stem, in a natural outdoor setting with blurred greenery and trees in the background.
A small mushroom with a conical tan cap and thin stem growing amidst green moss in a forest setting.
Orange and black patterned butterfly resting on green plant leaves and grass.
Snow-covered landscape with a frozen stream or pond, surrounded by tall evergreen trees, with the sun partially obscured by clouds in the sky.
Close-up of a plant stem with small, curly green tendrils growing from around a central bud.
Close-up of a wasp nest, showing hexagonal honeycomb cells in a natural outdoor setting.
A frog camouflaged among dry grass and leaves in a natural setting.
A close-up of a person's hand holding a small, brown, spiral shell snail with a textured body outdoors among green plants and dirt.
Close-up photo of bare feet on muddy ground, with distinct footprints and rocks visible.
Bare tree branches and small twigs on a snowy ground with shadows cast on the snow surface.
Close-up photo of a white feather caught on a thin branch in a wooded area.
Close-up of red berries hanging from thin branches with blurred background of trees and sunlight.
Close-up of a green spruce tree branch with a spruce-tip bud and spider web, blurred background of greenery.
A beaver gnawing on a stick along a shoreline, with grass and plants in the foreground.
Close-up of a fuzzy, elongated pussy-willows, with some small green leaves emerging. The background is blurred a natural outdoor setting.
Tree branches with budding pussywillows against a bright blue sky
A tiny frog on a person's fingertip with a green background.
Snow-covered forest trail with leafless trees and a sunset sky with orange, pink, purple, and blue hues.
Close-up of a squirrel sitting on a wooden surface, holding and eating a nut, with a background of leafless branches and trees.
Close-up of a tamarack tree trunk with green needles extending from the branches.
A person holding a chickadee on their hand outdoors. The chickadee is eating seeds from the person's palm. In the background, there is a muddy, snow-covered ground with some dry grass and twigs.
Close-up of a green tendril and leaf of a plant against a blurred green background.
Looking up at a cluster of tall trees with yellow leaves and a clear blue sky in the background.
Two children walking along a grassy riverbank surrounded by tall evergreen trees under a partly cloudy sky.
A ground surface with an arrangement of fallen leaves, small twigs, and red berries.
Close-up of a bee on purple and blue wildflowers with green stems and leaves.
Close-up of various types of moss and lichen growing on a forest floor, with shades of green, white, and brown.
A person holding a small cluster of white mushrooms growing out of a pinecone, with a green blurred background.
Close-up of green leaves on a tree with sunlight filtering through, blue sky in the background.
Close-up of a small insect, possibly a beetle, on a person's fingertip, with soil and dirt on its back and around the finger.