Nature
Four Hungry Mouths!
Four Hungry Mouths! Living on a forested acreage for the past forty years has given me numerous opportunities to observe the quiet and sometimes noisy aspects of Nature! Since the arrival of the global pandemic restricting forays “away”, I have been delighted even more with a front row seat as the seasons cycle past. This Spring in particular, each intricate detail of every blossom amazed me. Watching the silent unfolding of buds into such glorious blooms is indeed a thrill to witness. But the living creatures that frequent my line of vision draw me outdoors every day. Because our trees offer safety, privacy, and an abundance of food, our lands have become home to squirrels, raccoons, coyotes, skunks, rabbits—and just hundreds of birds.
By Maryalice Wood5 years ago in Earth
On The Back of The Big Trunk
We were riding forwards on a golden hunt. Towards a point in the African bush two hours from Johannesburg. It was the summer of two thousand and fourteen. My son pictured above had just won two grand. Designing a space logo for a ship circling planet earth had been his task at hand. We had to get out of the city of London. Dad was stuck in a weird kind of rut. Burying a dead soul who was never really alive while living poor thing. Just another swing in a mans song. We took off after flipping a coin heads or tails. Heads landed it was Africa, tails was Japan. The coin landed heads up.
By Black Dog Productions5 years ago in Earth
Wisconsin Warrior Brood XIII
I’m a hobby nature photographer and my specialty is my own backyard. I live in Wisconsin and it’s normal to capture a great photo. My past photos include deer, birds, squirrels and bugs. My most exotic sighting was a snow owl one wintry day but I didn’t get it on film.
By Diana Hayes5 years ago in Earth
Instructions to Save a Houseplant with Root Decay
You know how people say, I hope you like dogs or cats, before visiting their home? Likewise, before you go to many houseplant lover’s homes, you need to say, ‘I trust you like plants’. Since people have a ton of green buddies—inside and out, also, they love them all!
By rachael everly5 years ago in Earth
Enchanting beauty of nature!
What is the first inspiration for creators and artists all around the world? Yes, that's the beauty of nature which have attracted people all around, the vast number of beautiful poetry, amazing artworks and mesmerizing music are the pieces of evidence.
By Shiwangi dwivedi5 years ago in Earth
The Light Dragon
The morning rays of sunlight lit the ground gently. The sound of the people’s shoes upon the earth was soft. Bird’s songs twinkled through the air like magic dust, lilting sounds, with open spaces in between, where the sound of the air quietly drifting could be felt. The world was awakening, and it was awakening with light and welcoming. The trees, tall, with their thick trunks, seemed to quietly sway their leaves, like friends smiling to each of them, peacefully. The ground before them was a rich, rich brown, and it felt like it cushioned each step.
By Elliot Stiller5 years ago in Earth
The Small Miracles of Life
My family’s cottage is a thriving home for wildlife, and I see so many beautiful and sacred creatures there that I would never have been able to see in the urban world. It's how I managed to take this photo, with my LGK61 phone and with no filters or modifications added. Truly, I believe it is a magical place, just a quiet and small cottage out in nature facing a mineral rich, dark blue lake with titanic trees and massive and silent granite rocks stretching like small mountains from the woods to the sandy shore. I have grown up there, as has my mother and my grandfather, and my great grandfather. In the summer, we swim all day and maybe go stretch out on the heated rocks to warm up, in fall we go on journeys through the molten gold forest and collect turkey feathers, in the winter we hide inside by the fire or go snowshoeing on the frozen lake, and in spring, we watch the wildlife thrive, because us as humans are a part of this beautiful and natural cycle. We are not separate from nature, and this place truly reminds me of that. Foxes that steal our shoes if we leave them out too long, chipmunks that would climb up our legs to reach a peanut, a herd of deer standing on the frozen lake and leaving trails of footprints in the snow, bald eagles soaring overhead in hope of catching a fish, rattlesnakes sunning on the immense granite rocks, minks dashing across the shoreline. If we’re really lucky, we may even see a mother bear with her cubs, or a herd of moose. But, no matter what the conditions are, we can always rely on the turtles who lay their eggs, hatch and break free of their eggshells, and swim in the bay every year. We have every year been able to watch our mother snapper or painted turtle climb cautiously out of the water and make her way to the perfect place to have her nest, and witness a mother turtle laying her eggs while we have a campfire not so far away and watch the moon peak out beyond the treetops. We protect and make sure the babies get safely to the water for the first time, because it only seems fair that we give something in return for this magical moment, so we take care of her eggs all winter by covering them up to hide them from hungry predators.
By Olivia Gyuran5 years ago in Earth
A Rose by Any Other Name would Smell as Sweet
My mother had an amazing rose garden in England and I planted mine to celebrate her. I have roses of all kinds but I mostly concentrate on bush roses. I have peach, red, yellow, purple and white roses. I also have a remarkable orange and gold rose bush which is right outside my kitchen window, and which I keep an eye on in all seasons, including winter. Once Spring comes I fertilize the rose bushes and then I mulch them. I spray them with a light spray for bugs and fungi. I can’t use anything too poisonous because my husband’s bee-hive is quite close, and I don’t want to hurt the bees in any way.
By Felicity Harley5 years ago in Earth
Cutting A New Life
It had been a terrible few years filled with unspeakable troubles and events and I knew I was starting to sit down. You know, the kind of sit down you don't stand back up from. The kind of sit down where all your fight and motivation and dreams sit down too and all you're left with is the sitting and the doneness of life. I knew I could not sit down. Somewhere on a deep gut level I was still ready to stand up so I stood up. I walked out to the field behind the house and slowly, laboriously walked to the top of the hill. I stood at the top of the hill gasping for air, bent over from achy muscles that had sat for too long, and looked down. I saw a gently sloping hill of grass and remembered an old dream. When I looked at the hill through the vision of that old dream, I saw a lavender field.
By Shauna Hyde5 years ago in Earth
