My yard is the only reason we have frogs and dragonflies.

The bears and coyotes around here hide from me! Even if I try and creep on 'em, they still usually sense me and run.

Colombian drug runner getting damned innovative these days!

I usually don’t get that close a look as they run away, usually straight into the water. (Cottonmouths around here.)

I’m coming to hate lawns. All I see in a nice lawn is a vast wasteland, nothing but death. Call me radicalized?

Y’all should see my yard! Some needs chopped, but it’s getting pretty wild. At the same time it’s reaching a sort of equilibrium where I may not have to mow next year.

Got tadpoles by the hundreds in my micro ponds! Hoping for dragonflies next year, and loads more the year after.

Love oceanic evolution.

“That’s goofy as fuck, looks like a child drew it.”

“Does it fuck and make more?”

“Well, yeah, I guess, but…”

“GOOD ENOUGH. Put it in production.”

Got nailed by a wasp today for the first time in 20-years! I ignore them, they ignore me, no hassle. Even had a small nest over my front door last year that I left alone.

Fuckers started building under an outside table, right at knee height, all but touched the nest. I ain’t mad. I slaughtered them all and showed their aborted children to my kids as a science lesson. “EEWWW DAD!!!”

Meh, space might as well be B&W to our eyeballs. About every space pic we see is dialed into particular wavelengths.

Mad props on the creativity! Be cool to see one made of all Earth photos, and much easier I would guess.

My vet taught me this trick.

So, where are they getting replacement workers?

First one is the Montauk Monster?!

Mom spent 30+ years raking the leaves out from under the bushes. That shit turned into solid clay and choked all of it to death. Entire house and backyard ringed in shrubs, 4-hour job to trim it, all dead.

Old lady down the street obsessively rakes her yard and burns the leaves. Guess what it looks like? No foot or vehicular traffic, still a wasteland.

Another old guy across the street from her does the same. His entire front yard looks like Arrakis.

Let’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will

I see beautiful and common things that people around just shoulder shrug about.

Saw a black bear mama with two cubs last month, a coyote dancing playfully the next week. This week the water lilies are starting to explode across the local swamp. In that same swamp are hundreds, if not 1,000+, endangered pitcher plants and common sundews. Even at work there are several species of songbird in the garden section and raptors patrol the skies.

My great aunt explained to me as a child in the 70s that the moon was round because gravity pulled it into a sphere. This woman was born around 1890, educated in a one-room schoolhouse and lived on a Civil War-era farm in bumfuck West Virginia.

And then ya got what we have here today.

Bird names.

And the smaller the better.

And we didn’t realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)

I’ll take Swamp Dinosaur roaming the steaming wetlands of Didjabringabeeralong. Hot damn that sounds fun!