Even parasitic stuff is really cool! Especially the dog vomit fungus (which itself vomits all over itself [the yellow bits], you know, for effect, kind of like the dog returning to its own vomit – a good analogy of sin… yikes!)
The simplest flowers have a beauty that some of the more complicated flowers just can’t match.
As far as varmints go, well, here’s an update about the Brown Recluse spider bite: (update 1 June evening) IN DENIAL! Not good for a hermit: violins are playing
And here’s what’s left of a racoon after one rifle shot at about 150 yards by a seminarian. The racoon, mind you, was being very pesky. To see it, you’ll have to click the continue reading button. It really was a good shot. I would count it as right between the eyes:
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
These seminarians don’t mess around!
That does look like a good shot. I would hate to have that seminarian shooting at me.