Blooms hiding amongst the leaves, waiting to burst forth at dawn

In my high-speed journey around the park grabbing macro shots Sunday (macro shots really should not be “grabbed”), I paused long enough between mosquito bites to notice a few surprises peeking through the lush greenery that seems to have grown to gigantic proportions lately.

A spider checks out some flowers about to bloom

Tisen did not notice any of these things.  He did, however, manage to catch a fly in mid-air while I was in the middle of trying to catch a spider.  I caught the spider, too, but only in an image.

Some bright purple blooms pop up out of the undergrowth

In spite of their bright colors, these orange flowers were hard to spot from the sidewalk