I'm glad to be reading TFF today. It seems the site has been having server problems, and over the past short period has been down a couple of times. So far, it's been getting back on its feet again each time. so if you try and fail - hang on!
In my tiny corner of the world, autumn has arrived early. I'm up just after dawn, with a wildfire tinged sky (they've become so common they're barely reported on now). I have enormous groups of Canada geese traveling over the house honking like 1970s weddings, and more crows than I ever thought I'd see and hear. I went for a walk in a coastal forest yesterday and it was fantastic in there. I was with a person who studies mushrooms for fun, and as she pointed out things I might not have noticed otherwise, it was a world in those mossy pines.
I don't know if you're the same - but I find it great when people point out nature to me. I walk by mushrooms and notice them, but when the differences are pointed out, they're much more interesting. The same with my recent exploration of diversity in songbirds - I have seen a lot of small birds, but now the subtle differences are catching my eye. Mushrooms, plants, wildflowers, rocks, birds - I have always paid close attention to the differences in fish and insect species with my urban eye, but living in a less human modified place really allows your eyes to be opened to evolution, geology and diversity.
My mushroom admiring friend, the visiting mother of a friend, can't look at a rock face without wondering about its geological history. She's never been in this corner of the world before, and she brings a fresh eye. That is very interesting.
In my tiny corner of the world, autumn has arrived early. I'm up just after dawn, with a wildfire tinged sky (they've become so common they're barely reported on now). I have enormous groups of Canada geese traveling over the house honking like 1970s weddings, and more crows than I ever thought I'd see and hear. I went for a walk in a coastal forest yesterday and it was fantastic in there. I was with a person who studies mushrooms for fun, and as she pointed out things I might not have noticed otherwise, it was a world in those mossy pines.
I don't know if you're the same - but I find it great when people point out nature to me. I walk by mushrooms and notice them, but when the differences are pointed out, they're much more interesting. The same with my recent exploration of diversity in songbirds - I have seen a lot of small birds, but now the subtle differences are catching my eye. Mushrooms, plants, wildflowers, rocks, birds - I have always paid close attention to the differences in fish and insect species with my urban eye, but living in a less human modified place really allows your eyes to be opened to evolution, geology and diversity.
My mushroom admiring friend, the visiting mother of a friend, can't look at a rock face without wondering about its geological history. She's never been in this corner of the world before, and she brings a fresh eye. That is very interesting.
