I first started dipping into naturalism at one of my lows, back when we were launching a birdspotting app and I wanted to help test it. I got into it immediately and combined with my daily mental health walks it really made me dive back into nature, and appreciate how healing it was to see life's good parts.
As I was already enjoying learning all kinds of stuff about fungi, I started collecting/identifying those I found in the wild as well. Because I'm not an expert I just like to catalog what I find but I don't always know their names and don't want help okay! It's for the fun of learning and exploring.
Eventually I started adding my origamis, plushies, and anything remotely animal to this page and it became one giant ode to nature's million follies.
Like bubbles that slowly grow off the wood only to become wood solid themselves. People love to break these off but the inside even feels wooden with splinters and stuff, really a weird cool one!
Such kind and affectionate animals, the pain of what we do to them hurts every time you look them in their big mirror eyes. I had the occasion to hug some at a refuge and it was a lovely experience <3
One of those insects that strike fear from the legends around it more than from reality! What is funny is that while both the english and french (ear piercer) share an “ear” theme they do so for different reasons since their wings are ear-shaped. Regardless I remember being told as a kid they crawled into ears and pierced them with their rear-pincers which is more what the french name went for, and that scared me so much cause I was like shit I’m already supposed to be swallowing spiders now I’ll get a piercing in my sleep what the fuck?? Luckily these guys are innocent and really just cool looking in the end 😛
I thought this was a termite mound at first but it turned out to be wood ants doing their thing in the middle of the forest, and thank god because I prefer admiring these guys from afar 😅
Somehow called Great even tho I prefer their Blue fellows since they’re easier to spot
I’m not the fondest of bugs but some are still cool like those
So fibery that it's almost clothlike
Poor lil rat breathing slowly in the street, hope they were okay
Sometimes in our garden we had a toad visit, which made the cats freak out but he was nice so!
A bird so common you forget to appreciate how beautiful their reflective green collards are, especially in water or the sun
Smaller than their classic counterpart but equally cute
Champions of “Being there but not”, I thought this was some more elusive bird than it is before starting to recognise the wingspan and call.
From then they become instead constant distant partners, always looping and whistling high above your head, but never quite there, never quite close enOUGH TO TAKE AN ACTUAL PROPER PIC I WILL GET YOU STOP BEING SO FAST DAMMIT
Just have to love the absolute bluntness of bird names at times. Yeah its the bird over there with the black cap and the rest was history I guess 😄 Still a lovely cutie to encounter and with beautiful songs
A beautiful white and blue squirrel ready for winter
Shitloads of these all around, animals love to grab bites off them
Still unsure this one is even fungus?? Could be the remains of fire extinguishing foam or something
A whole colony of them absolutely TERRORIZED us for the few years we lived at our last house in France, because they had settled in the entire facade-wide crevice between our porch and the house, AKA right above the door waiting whenever you went in or out. They wouldn’t just stand there either, they’d actively come out of the fucking tunnels when we’d turn on the outside light, as if to signal that every time we passed through, it was because the biggest one of them all, Mother, had instructed its colony to allow us. For this time.
As I grew up with Shepards in the family I was accustomed to sheep and goats really early on and always had a soft spot for them, especially as one of my first plushies as an adult was a small lil angry sheep
Weird smooth flashy secretions on the wood, almost looks like meringue! Definitely doesn’t taste like it tho 😅
Raptors disguised as pigeons, always hunt in pack and look back at you like they're gonna fuck you up
Love the irregular shape of the cap although not sure if it’s the species or environment around
Small little happy mushrooms that pop up at the foot of trees and sweat white, sometimes eaten here or there
Looks like chicken of the wood but was too broken down already for me to be sure
I first started dipping into naturalism at one of my lows, back when we were launching a birdspotting app and I wanted to help test it. I got into it immediately and combined with my daily mental health walks it really made me dive back into nature, and appreciate how healing it was to see life's good parts.
As I was already enjoying learning all kinds of stuff about fungi, I started collecting/identifying those I found in the wild as well. Because I'm not an expert I just like to catalog what I find but I don't always know their names and don't want help okay! It's for the fun of learning and exploring.
Eventually I started adding my origamis, plushies, and anything remotely animal to this page and it became one giant ode to nature's million follies.
Like bubbles that slowly grow off the wood only to become wood solid themselves. People love to break these off but the inside even feels wooden with splinters and stuff, really a weird cool one!
Such kind and affectionate animals, the pain of what we do to them hurts every time you look them in their big mirror eyes. I had the occasion to hug some at a refuge and it was a lovely experience <3
One of those insects that strike fear from the legends around it more than from reality! What is funny is that while both the english and french (ear piercer) share an “ear” theme they do so for different reasons since their wings are ear-shaped. Regardless I remember being told as a kid they crawled into ears and pierced them with their rear-pincers which is more what the french name went for, and that scared me so much cause I was like shit I’m already supposed to be swallowing spiders now I’ll get a piercing in my sleep what the fuck?? Luckily these guys are innocent and really just cool looking in the end 😛
I thought this was a termite mound at first but it turned out to be wood ants doing their thing in the middle of the forest, and thank god because I prefer admiring these guys from afar 😅
Somehow called Great even tho I prefer their Blue fellows since they’re easier to spot
I’m not the fondest of bugs but some are still cool like those
So fibery that it's almost clothlike
Poor lil rat breathing slowly in the street, hope they were okay
Sometimes in our garden we had a toad visit, which made the cats freak out but he was nice so!
A bird so common you forget to appreciate how beautiful their reflective green collards are, especially in water or the sun
Smaller than their classic counterpart but equally cute
Champions of “Being there but not”, I thought this was some more elusive bird than it is before starting to recognise the wingspan and call.
From then they become instead constant distant partners, always looping and whistling high above your head, but never quite there, never quite close enOUGH TO TAKE AN ACTUAL PROPER PIC I WILL GET YOU STOP BEING SO FAST DAMMIT
Just have to love the absolute bluntness of bird names at times. Yeah its the bird over there with the black cap and the rest was history I guess 😄 Still a lovely cutie to encounter and with beautiful songs
A beautiful white and blue squirrel ready for winter
Shitloads of these all around, animals love to grab bites off them
Still unsure this one is even fungus?? Could be the remains of fire extinguishing foam or something
A whole colony of them absolutely TERRORIZED us for the few years we lived at our last house in France, because they had settled in the entire facade-wide crevice between our porch and the house, AKA right above the door waiting whenever you went in or out. They wouldn’t just stand there either, they’d actively come out of the fucking tunnels when we’d turn on the outside light, as if to signal that every time we passed through, it was because the biggest one of them all, Mother, had instructed its colony to allow us. For this time.
As I grew up with Shepards in the family I was accustomed to sheep and goats really early on and always had a soft spot for them, especially as one of my first plushies as an adult was a small lil angry sheep
Weird smooth flashy secretions on the wood, almost looks like meringue! Definitely doesn’t taste like it tho 😅
Raptors disguised as pigeons, always hunt in pack and look back at you like they're gonna fuck you up
Love the irregular shape of the cap although not sure if it’s the species or environment around
Small little happy mushrooms that pop up at the foot of trees and sweat white, sometimes eaten here or there
Looks like chicken of the wood but was too broken down already for me to be sure
