A wonderful large common toad.

A large common toad. I don't know if it's  male or  female. It lives by my back door  under the stones, in the wall where it's safe and dark and damp.

Autumn leaves on a lawn just outside the Grand Palais, Paris.

These beautiful leaves were lying on a lawn outside The Grand Palais, Paris, 13th November 2011. 

The peppered moth caterpillar camouflaged as a green rose bush twig.

The clever peppered moth caterpillar (biston betularia) disguises himself as a green twig on a rose bush!       Predators, ( mainly birds) would find it hard to find him, so he can eat rose leaves in peace and security. 
(Could of course be a her)?

Collection of seaweeds in album 1858

Pages from a young girl's album containing some poems and a collection of seaweeds, 1858. The album was presented to Magdaline Beaumont by her brother Alfred.