Red Hot Wet Chili Pepper

Arguably a perfectly shaped red chili pepper, after a late summer storm.

Bolivian torch symmetry

A beautiful five ribs symmetry in the Bolivian torch cactus, Trichocereus bridgesii a.k.a. Echinopsis lageniformis.

Mandrake regrowth

Mandragora autumnalis leaves sprout from the root, woken up by rain and the first signs of fall.

Crab Spider in Datura

This little Crab Spider (likely a male) made himself very comfortable inside of a fragrant Datura metel flower.

Blue Lotus

Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea The Sumerians normally recognized Inana as a goddess of the skies and a sister of the sun-god, Utu. Yet she frequently pays a visit to the underworld of her sister, Ereshkigal, in the aquatic domains of Uruk and Eridu (i.e., near Ur and Eden of