#natural area

[dashalbrundezimmer]

landscape // siebengebirge

the siebengebirge is an ancient cultural area, but also a natural area. actually, not a single spot is untouched, as centuries of cultivation and mining have changed many things forever. the quarries have all been abandoned by now, but so have monasteries and castles. the places are now overgrown again and offer new habitats. threatened traditional cultural landscapes are managed and preserved by initiatives, associations and individuals. this is a very important task, especially nowadays. from the various summits, there are always new views of the different landscapes as far as the rhineland and the eifel.

film: agfa apx100

dev&scan: meinfilmlab

#siebengebirge #monochrome #photography #nature photography #agfa apx 100 #35mm #analog #germany #nrw #rhineland #eifel #nature #natural area #cultural area #history #canon #canon a1 #apple #landscape #landscape photography #bonn #rhine #rhine valley

[onehikeaweek]

#hiking #south cascades #boxley creek #natural area #snoqualmie valley trail #rattlesnake lake #rattlesnake mountain

[theprotectedplaceperson]

El Yunque, America's Only Tropical Rainforest

A view of El Yunque National Forest

El Yunque is a beautiful but strange place in the United States. Near Río Grande, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. this is America's only tropical rainforest. While America has many temperate forests in states like Alaska and Washington, no other place in the U.S. has a true tropical rainforest, but why is El Yunque a rainforest at all? El Yunque get a LOT of rain, 6.1 meters a year of rain a lot. Precipitation from trade winds falling on the eastern side of Puerto Rico causes this bastion of rainforest in the U.S. El Yunque has 16 endemic species of trees and plants and 200 over all. This rainforest also has the rare Puerto Rican Parrot only found in this strange rainforest

#protected places #climatology #puerto rico #united states #el yunque #national forest #natural area

[herpsandbirds]

Tiger Moth (Areas galactina), family Erebidae, MCM Nature Discovery Villa, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

photograph by David Fischer

#areas #tiger moth #moth #erebidae #lepidoptera #insect #entomology #borneo #asia #animals #nature

[cainhowlett]

7 months of carving coming to an end, I lost some details and added some. I love and need to see the prints, but honestly, the block is the final art piece for me. It’s what I spend all my time with and each one has a segment of my life attached with it.

Shina woodblock

#nature #art #california #mendocino #sonoma #bay area #ink #printmaking #illustration #mokuhanga #ukiyoe #woodblock print #forest #木版画 #picoftheday #relief print #trees #woodblock #alders #salmon #fish #coho

[rinibayphoto]

#photographers of tumblr #photographers on tumblr #photography #lensblr #original photographers #bay area #norcal #california #water #creek #nature #aesthetic

[the-w0nder-beards]

#mine #photography #california #travel #photographers on tumblr #nature #landscape photography #landscape #california photography #bay area

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Snowy Desert

Four Peaks Wilderness area - Arizona

Photographer: Tyler Sorensen

#tyler sorensen #photographer #desert #cactus #landscape #mountains #four peak wilderness area #arizona #nature #snow

[petitworld]

Alishan National Scenic Area, Taiwan by Potsen Tseng

#alishan national scenic area #taiwan #travelling #nature #cottagecore #naturecore #cherry tree #sakura #nature aesthetic #flowers #flowercore #petitworld favs #petitworld

[maureen2musings]

xjtian

#california #coast #bay area #beach #nature photography #curators on tumblr

[chickenoptyrx]

....I just wanted to draw gators :T at this point these 2 are more 'a representation of my last 2 brain cells' then they are actual characters 😅

#im living vicariously through the cartoon guys #because i want to A. pick up gator (strong man style) #and B. ..pick up gator (hug) #ok but so i recently found out an area where i take stupid little walks for my stupid little mental health #has! GATORS!! (potentially. theres signs.) #and this is great cause seeing gators would def heal me as a person #but ok so when i look for hiking places i always look north cause the terrains more hilly #but now im lookin south more cause turns out i AM in fact far enough south to see gators!! #and yeah looks like theres a handful of nature reserves w hiking trails the same distance away as the little mountain trails i go to #its flatter and the trails are less extensive so ill hafta see if i think its worth it #but then too theres a really big black water swamp that.. further away then i wanna drive.. #but also i drove 5 hrs once just to go to mammoth cave as a day trip so.. we'll see.. #my friend says he wont go w me tho :T he'll just report me missing #this has been a tag ramble about my sudden outset intrest in seeing a gator #my bullshit #lol barely but still #also- i told myself not to over do it drawin the scales or coloring it #and as you can see i dont listen to myself ever #lol they look outta place but idc i got to draw 2 of my favorite characters and also ALLIGATORS :U #living the dream rn

[just-your-average-cryptid]

most of us have heard of the red car game. you’re on a road trip, you’re bored, you start looking for red cars to do something.

and then they’re everywhere. you notice them nearly every few minutes.

there aren’t suddenly more red cars now, of course. you were seeing them already, but you weren’t noticing. you weren’t looking.

I am noticing things.

there is a plant I notice everywhere now, a small bushy plant in suburbs, along streets, by shops on the highways. dwarf umbrella bush is what the internet tells me when I look for it’s name. I did this because I wanted to know why,

every time I ever saw it, every place,

it was always dying. always the leaves turning yellow, the branches small and scraggly. inside out - nitrogen deficiency. their soil drained.

I am noticing how many of these landscaping plants are yellowing, how small and sickly they look in just a few years. I am noticing how often the grass outside the house is replaced when it once again turns brown and dry, how the type never changes and the cycle starts again. I am noticing how the unmowed, unkempt spaces on lakesides and roadsides look more alive than this. how the preserve I grew up next to was miles of “messy” unmanicured nature and the ground was covered in leaves instead of grass and there was life.

I am noticing the birds that come by the lake. there was a flash of blue wings and red chest - eastern bluebird, male, relatively common. I had never seen one before. there is a family of ducks that appear every spring; i cannot say if it’s successive generations or different ducks, but I can always look forward to ducklings. there are little brown birds with white heads whose names I do not know - are they some kind of piper? why don’t I already know?

why is it so hard to learn about my native plants (accurately, that is)? why are so many gardening sites littered with people who think a plants value is based on how pretty or useful it is to them, who think a tree shedding leaves is “messy”?

why is knowing about the world we live in so… odd? why is it a hobby and not vital knowledge? I learned about polar equations. I taught myself about mycorrhizal networks and species of insects.

(did you know there are shiny green bees? a special species of wasp pollinating figs? that white flowers bloom at night for moths? do you know? have you looked?)

I cannot look at a lawn and see life anymore. it is a wasteland, devoid of life, dying slowly itself. everywhere is grass, grass, doused in water that runs over into storm drains, soaked in fertilizer and pesticides and a hundred other poisons and sending one clear message:

this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.

I do not think I could live in a city. too loud, yes, too busy, yes, too many people, yes, but the plants would bother me. a tree allotted only a convenient square, surrounded by dead stone and metal.

a forest cleared for this, for burning asphalt streets and racing cars and shops whose bathrooms are “for paying customers only”.

this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.

and now I am noticing.

#it speaks #idk man this is stream of consciousness and it’s midnight lol #I’m having thoughts about plants and people and how much I hate lawns #anti lawn #firmly believe that nature knowledge should be taught in school #yeah there’s biology but biology won’t teach you what plants are edible or deadly #or what birds live/migrate in your area and what they depend on #they teach civics bc even if you’re not politically active you should know how the government works #if you live in a world you should know how it works #bc even if it feels like it doesn’t matter. it does. it will. and if you notice it now you can do something about it

[onehikeaweek]

#hiking #puget sound #henrys ridge #natural area #open space #maple valley

[nordsea-horizons]

🍃green forest details☘️

#toadstool island #acnh #animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #new horizons #acnh island #acnh exterior #acnh forest #acnh spring #acnh forestcore #acnh natural island #acnh nature #acnh inspo #acnh screenshots #acnh march #acnh space filler #acnh transition area

[hirundo-demersalis]

Bitterns in Russian cities masterpost

#how did they get there? #apparently lots of Russian cities are built on rivers and wetlands #so sometimes bitterns and other wetland birds will wander into urban areas #unfortunately their natural defense mechanism (standing completely still and pretending to be a reed) doesn't work there #greatest hits #op #birds #birdwatching #russia #bittern #eurasian bittern #выпь #птицы #русский tumblr #россия

[cainhowlett]

I found my first Hemileuca moth this year, one of my favorite local moths.

#art #nature #california #bay area #mendocino #sonoma #moths #insects #bugs #entomology #Hemileuca #saturniidae