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There must still be something to find here …

#moorhen #very looooong moorhen #they always look more bulbous from a distance

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Sage grouse By: Unknown photographer From: WWF Threatened Animals 1986

#bird

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sandgrouse are underappreciated

#bird

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The kind of stuff ive been on lately

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Lodoss-tou Senki - Episode 9

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Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus), family Paridae, order Passeriformes, western Mongolia

photograph by Jargal Lamjav | Flickr

#birds #azure tit

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Pickle update one:

Made some pickles at the weekend. 7 jars in total. 3 were my usual mustard seed and dill combo cucumber pickles. 2 had garlic added, 1 had a bay leaf added. 1 jar was green beans, with pepper.

Just opened the green beans. They're really good. Black pepper is an excellent add-in to a pickle vinegar. Green beans also pickle well, they do lose some colour, however. They absorb the vinegar and have a nice snap. Would recommend.

#pickles

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Growing up we had a massive pine tree in our back garden. Like it was huge, maybe twice the height of the house. Great to play under. My parents had always wanted to be rid of it, as my mother feared it may fall on the house. They were eventually paid by the council, so the council could chop it down to get at a telegraph pole that had become intertwined into the tree. They were happy, as they got money to get rid of a problem they wanted to be rid of. Win win.

The decision was made to just leave the stump. That was maybe 10 years ago and if you look in the garden today it's completely gone, leaving great soil for the plants that now inhabit the spot (a lot of what most people consider weeds, a hedge, and a cherry tree.)

Since that tree went the garden has been brought under control (it was a right state growing up.) My dad sticks to very natural methods: no pesticides, no herbicides, natural patches, and whatever plants and flowers the polinators in the area seem to like. The dog seems to like this too: they always leave a big patch of unmowed grass as a habitat, and the dog loves to hide in it.

For the years the garden laid in a state, things grew, things died. They rotted (without much bother). The soil where the big pine used to sit is rich as anything, due to the needles that fell and carpeted the hidden floor under it. At the back, many things had laid on top of one another, rotting down into a rich soil. When they bought the house, my father pulled down a birch that stood in one corner, and just let it rot.

We have some of the best soil in our town because of this. Everything is vibrant and strong. ROT IS GOOD. It's natural and it feeds the things you want to grow. The garden is a haven for bugs and creatures, man and beast alike.

OKAY so

i've been looking at, like, pro-ecosystem gardening, right? like how to make your yard into a good habitat for living creatures

And like. I'm being 100% serious here. A RIDICULOUS amount of the "landscaping" and gardening advice out there is straight up financially motivated smear campaigns for the most random, innocuous things in nature

Welcome to the saddest and most hilarious part of the internet: ANTI-STUMP PROPAGANDA

When you google "tree stump" this stuff is what pops up. Dozens of blog posts from tree removal service companies explaining why you have to get a tree stump in your yard removed NOW.

And the contents are the most desperate, hilarious bullshit the internet has shown me in at least a month

Tree stumps aren't just UGLY...

they have THINGS that LIVE in them.

The more comfortable you get with a tree stump...the more likely it is that you won't act...

until it's too late.

If you try to remove a tree stump by yourself...it could quickly become a dangerous situation.

Because tree stumps...aren't just the innocent stumps of trees. They're a malicious enemy, lying in wait, ready to lower the property value of your home.

And not only that...they're DANGEROUS.

If you trip over a tree stump, you could end up losing everything from all the medical bills you have to pay from your tree-stump-related injuries.

And that's not all.

If someone is INJURED by that tree stump on your property...you will be held responsible. CHILDREN could be SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Think of the children!

Your NEIGHBORS might SUE YOU when their CHILD trips over your tree stump and is SERIOUSLY HURT!!!!!!!!!!

Not only that, tree stumps are ROTTING and MOLDY, like MOLDY ROTTING VEGETABLES. Isn't that DISGUSTING?

Tree stumps SPREAD DECAY to the rest of your yard because they're ROTTING and PUTRID.

A tree stump...is a festering wound

It spreads INFECTION AND DECAY to your entire yard as its DECAPITATED CORPSE decomposes

If you don't act now to get rid of that tree stump...

it will RUIN your HOME

and KILL YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY

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#beaches #photo #oc

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Holy shit my rose is growing

A few weeks ago

#plants #growing #nature #cottagecore

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fungi fungi fungi

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