badass bark

found while meandering through UF's secret forest...

Dancing Diatoms

found at the bottom of the deep blue sea, also here

bug fortress

found in UF's leafy underbelly.

cypress knees

found here.

By Jupiter

found here.

tempered strength

found in my front yard.

giant jellies

found here.

wings are dull realities.

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or deem thee wise?
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jeweled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Has thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

-- Edgar Allan Poe, 1829