Meet one another

[urbpan]

Many of the people on my friends list keep journals about the nature around them. Some of you have friended each other, but in case you hadn't, and are interested, here's a little rundown:

artemii reports on the nature in her garden in the Boston area city of Somerville.
cottonmanifesto is my wife and partner, and takes great nature photographs. Also lots of dog pictures.
crunchywater is in Oregon, keeps exotic pets and makes weird art. Sometimes she goes on nature walks in dense jungly Oregon.
ema_nymtonsti is in Australia, which confuses me when she talks about how hot it is in January and such.
marmota_monax journals about life on her Western Massachusetts farm.
omphalina is a lichenologist in Oregon. I wish I could rewrite that sentence with my own name at the beginning.
rwblackbird is 35 miles or so out of Toronto, in beautiful woodsy areas, that he writes about and sometimes posts pictures of.
vyoma is a mycologist and nature photographer in Talahassee. His pictures are mind-blowing, and he knows a lot of stuff. He escapes studying calculus by going into the swamp to look at mushrooms and bugs.
wakarusa waxes eloquent about the copious wildlife around her in (of all places, to my mind) Kansas.

I'm very sorry if this post leads to stalking, but I hope you at least read one another's writing and look at one another's photographs. If you are offended by being listed here, I'll remove it.

Comments

[vyoma.livejournal.com]

Kind words indeed! But in the interests of truth in advertising, I have to point out that I'm a mycologist wannabe currently working on an undergraduate degree in biology so that I can get there. Lately, there's a lot more nitching about calculus than mind-blowing pictures in my journal, but that situation should reverse itself in about a week.

And I don't go into the swamp, really. I leave the swamp when I drive away from my house. :)

truth in advertising

[artemii.livejournal.com]

right now i do more posting about current events and human cultures than about my little urban natureland. (wanted to point it out since my lj's friends-only.)

thanks for pimping me. :)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of offended.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I was specifically thinking of you when I wrote that. Want me to edit you out?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Nah, it doesn't really matter - it's not like you never link to me or anything. :)

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just realized how little I have mentioned about my natural surroundings. It has been awhile since a nature post. That depresses.

Thanks though.


I did have a story that I wanted to share with you.

I was longboarding along a paved path that runs parallel to our local Main Street, beside a creek and some small wooded areas.

An animal began to run beside my skateboard. It was running on the side of my board where my back was turned, and I only saw it from the corner of my eye.

Assuming it was a dog, I raced it for a good long forty five seconds until it began to pass me and I realized what it was.

I was about a metre away from the most adorable fawn.

I stopped and it hopped back a step. And we just looked at each other.

It was so strange. I have never thought deer to be curious creatures. But this animal seemed genuinely interested in who I was, what I was doing and whether or not he could play too.

I sat with it until I became restless and decided to reach my arm out. The deer sprang from its tranquillity and bounced off into the woods.

The end.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Best. Story. Ever.

=D

[crunchywater.livejournal.com]

I am quite honored to be included in your list, thank you!

[izzy23.livejournal.com]

I was so tickled to stumble across mycology and find cottonmanifesto and vyoma in there together. I love it when my worlds collide. :)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 'cept vyoma actually *eats* the things. UGH!!!