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Just some sea, nothing to see 😁

@outdoor @nature @photography @hiking @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @joinin @tea

#SeaWednesday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo
#Hiking #InMy #Summer #Wonderland

Photo from a cliff along the coast to other cliffs in the distance with the sea and partially cloudy sky taking prominence.

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“In the Heart of the Forest”

Available as fine arts prints, bookmarks, and postcards: https://lindenshieldarts.com

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #Gouache #Painting #Forest #Nature #ShopSmall #ArtPrints

A gouache painting of an angular, moss-covered rock, floating above mossy stone steps in a dark forest. Soft light is flooding the scene from above, gently illuminating the moss and the tiny white flowers growing in it.

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#cat #catsofMastodon #caturday #photography #nature #katermoos #cats kater Moos in de bananendoos

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"Behave like everything you do matters." ~ Gloria Steinem

#quote #grasses #nature #SeedHeads

A seed head of tall green grass with thin longish hairlike strands of seeds reaching into the path of some sunlight next to the dark green blades of its plants and a curving gray bark slender tree trunk.

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Pennsylvania has their groundhog for winter weather prognostication, in SE TX for summer weather prediction we have #squirrels. This one’s pooped out posture tells me that the cooler autumn weather relief is still at least 6 weeks away. 🥵

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #nature #SquirrelsOfMastodon #SquirrelScrolling

Color photo of an Eastern Grey Squirrel sprawled out with eyes closed in a pair of cast cement cupped hands mounted to a wooden fence.

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Canada built 44 bridges and tunnels across a single stretch of highway so that animals could cross without dying, and collisions with wildlife there have fallen by more than 80%, with grizzly mothers now teaching their cubs to use the crossings like a route the family has always known

https://scienceblog.com/b-canada-built-44-bridges-and-tunnels-across-a-single-stretch-of-highway-so-that-animals-could-cross-without-dying-and-collisions-with-wildlife-there-have-fallen-by-more-than-80-with-grizzly-mothers-n/

#nature #wildlife #canada

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It was almost a competition, each sapling reaching for the sunlight so that it could grow, and grow big. In not many years, the small copse of trees would become a little forest of its own.

Autumn Pathway canvas print, free shipping in the U.S. and Canada.

https://www.pictorem.com/2642585/autumn-pathway/

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #autumn #fall #trees #nature #orange #hiking #outside #outdoors #fedigiftshop #forest #country #rural #wallart #decor

Small copse of trees in a country field.

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I send thanks to the buyer from Missouri who purchased a canvas print of

Green Mountain Valley -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/green-mountain-valley-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the artwork take you to a big valley, surrounded by majestic mountains.

#art #artwork #FirstFridayArtWalk #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #weather #rain #valley #mountains #nature #travel #oregon #farm #ranch #peaceful #fedigiftshop #sale #canvas #wallart #decor #horizontal #landscape

Rainy day in an alpine valley surrounded by mountains.

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#TextureTuesday

This stunning pink dahlia with orange hue stopped me on my tracks as it glistened with morning dew, its petals intricately intertwined. I specially enjoyed the little details of spider webs delicately spanning across, adding to its charm.
https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/vibrant-pink-dahlia-glistens-with-morning-dew-ez-lorenz.html

#September #Flowers #Spiderweb #Dew #Morning #Texture #Pink #ArtForSale #ArtShop #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #GreetingCards #Gifts #FediGiftshop #HomeDecor #InteriorDecor #Washington #PNW #Nature #Photo

A stunning pink dahlia with orange hue glistens with morning dew, its petals intricately intertwined. Dew covered spider webs delicately spanning across, adding to its charm.

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Bald ist Herbst und der Igel in meinem Garten wird dann wieder sein Winterquartier in einer vernachlässigten Ecke meines Gartens einrichten...

Igel im Herbstlaub - handgemaltes Aquarell

Habt einen schönen Tag!

--> https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Igel-im-Herbstlaub/1804549

#art #painting #aquarell #watercolour #igel #hedgehog #animals #nature #autumn #herbst #fall #mastoArt #garten

Ein kleiner Igel schaut neugierig aus einem Haufen leuchtend bunter Herbstblätter, die er zum Überwintern zusammengetragen hat. Sein braunes Fell fügt sich harmonisch in die warmen Töne der von der goldenen Herbstsonne beschienenen Umgebung ein. Der Hintergrund besticht durch satte, warme Farben und schafft eine gemütliche Atmosphäre.
Igel im Herbstlaub ist ein handgemaltes Aquarellgemälde der Künstlerin Karen Kaspar.

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I simply love the vibrant autumn colors!

Leaves of a Japanese Maple tree in vibrant shades of warm red and orange are shining bright in the autumn sun.

--> https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/red-maple-leaves-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #maple #garden #gardening #trees #leaves #red #autumn #fall #nature #BuyIntoArt #FirstFridayArtWalk #fallfoliage #autumnvibes

Red Maple Leaves is an acrylic painting in portrait format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. Many leaves from the Japanese maple tree in warm red and orange tones glow in the autumn sun.

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I send thanks to the buyer from Massachusetts who purchased an art print of

Field of Dreams -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/field-of-dreams-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print

May the artwork take you to a place of eternal spring.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #meadow #flowers #wildflowers #hiking #spring #landscape #painting #peace #peaceful #fedigiftshop #washington

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Modern life is a balance between enjoying the benefits of technology -- electricity, indoor plumbing, using the Internet, driving a car -- and being manipulated by the corporations that control these things.

Privacy: it's rather nice. And it takes work and determination to keep it.

Off the Grid canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/off-the-grid-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#art #artwork #FirstFridayArtWalk #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #nature #landscape #fedigiftshop #travel #country #rural #peace #wallart #canvas #decor

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People who walk their own path rarely find themselves in the middle of a crowd.

Beauty and the Abyss, framed canvas print -- https://www.pictorem.com/2648019/beauty-and-the-abyss/

Free shipping in the U.S. and Canada.

#art #artwork #arizona #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #hiking #nature #naturelovers #grandcanyon #canvas #wallart #livingroom #decor #fedigiftshop #freeshipping #independence #woman #beauty

Painting of woman walking through Grand Canyon.

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56d

One flower, extra butterflies, please 😁

@outdoor @nature @photography @hiking @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world @joinin @tea

#FlowerFriday #WildFlowers #FlowerPhotography #OC
#NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #Photo
#July #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands #HikingAland
#Hiking #InMy #Summer #Wonderland

A white flower with two butterflies feeding on it.

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5d

Just gliding 😁

#Paddleboarding #Music #OC #Nature #Video #Loops #August #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands

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6d

#Paddleboarding #Snorkeling #Music #OC #Nature #Video #Loops #August #Southern #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands

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How about some beach-cows for #SilentSunday 😁

@paddleboarding @outdoor @nature @Nature@lemmy.world @photography @photography@lemmy.world

#OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo #September #Finland #Archipelago #Åland #AlandIslands #Paddleboarding #InMy #Autumn #Wonderland

Photo from water level of some cows grazing on a forested beach.

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Two new pages of the #carnivorousPlant #zine are up! Click the link for the whole thing :)

Edited to replace the second page where I somehow managed to line up the text around the image without realizing I had duplicated an entire paragraph, because I'm sooo professional.

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

#sciArt #tardigrade #wetlands #frogs #goblincore #bogwitch #illustration #humanMadeArt #art #wetlands #ecology #nature

Illustration of a pine barrens tree frog on a blueberry branch, with grasspink orchids and a leaf from Sarracenia minor (a pitcher plant). Illustration has the text:

Humans aren’t the only risk these bog loving species must face. While we don’t usually think of fire when we think of wetlands, many wetland species, including some pines, need an occasional fire to help them thrive. While the fire might threaten the animal and insect species that live there, without it they would loose the wetland habitat they rely on.

Bogs and pocasins may get quite dry in spring or summer, and be prone to fires that keep the growth under control. These fires keep low-growing, sun-loving plants such as flytraps from being overshadowed by growing shrubs. Without such fires, the bogs and pocasins would slowly develop into a forest. Because of these fires, the soil has a high ash content. So, even though they are separate from the water table, some minerals may be present from the ash. However, these minerals are used by the moss itself to wage biological warfare in a bloodthirsty struggle for resources.

At the heart of what makes a bog, we find sphagnum moss. Each strand of moss is an individual plant. They do not have roots, just a main stem with drooping branches full of pointed, tube-like leaves. The leaves have large, empty cells that absorb and hold water, soaking it up like a sponge. It can hold up to 20 times its weight in water. This makes it very effective at filtering the water that passes through it, and it has learned to use this to its advantage.

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A chubby little tardigrade in sphagnum moss, with the moss enlarged to show the detail of a branch and cellular structure in the background with the text:

Like many plants, sphagnum mosses have a trick up their sleeves to give themselves an advantage to compete for resources. Slow growing plants like moss can quickly get overshadowed. However, the moss likes acidic conditions, and can even make conditions even more acidic by absorbing minerals plants love such as potassium and magnesium, and replacing these minerals with hydrogen ions. When we talk about acidity, we are talking about that very thing, how many hydrogen ions are in the environment. The more there are, the more acidic it is.

This not only means fewer minerals are available, but what nutrients are left may become unusable. Acidic water may cause minerals to form bonds with each other. When this happens, they are less likely to dissolve in water, so plant roots are unable to pull them up into the plant, starving the plant of the resources it needs for proper metabolism and building of cellular structures. Plants wither from hunger, and their roots burn in the acidity. Meanwhile, the moss thrives.

Most plants can’t survive in this environment but some, such as carnivorous plants, have adapted to fight back. In a mature bog, the moss rises in little mounds or hills. Plants who can handle the pressure find themselves a cozy home with few competitors, and plenty of moisture from what the moss holds. Some acid loving plants start taking over. This can be anything from grasses to shrubs such as cranberry and blueberry, and trees such as black spruce and birch. Orchids love bogs and pocasins, and are often found growing near carnivorous plants.

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Sunset minus 12 minutes
#photography #nature

Narrow band of yellow sunset with the sun peeking under a thick layer of grey clouds. Will it light up the underside of them? Will have to wait and see.

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I call this work: "Close encounters of the sheep kind..." 🤔😂

@outdoor @nature @photography @hiking @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world @hiking@lemmy.world

#PhotoMonday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photo
#July #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands #HikingAland
#Hiking #InMy #Summer #Wonderland

Photo of Zelda the dog meeting some sheep, embarrasingly she was more afraid of the sheep than they were of her.

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I don't know much but I know that house has a pot of gold 😁

@outdoor @nature @photography @photography@lemmy.world @Nature@lemmy.world

#Rainbow #Wildflowers #PhotoMonday #OC #NaturePhotography #Nature #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Photo
#September #Finland #Archipelago #AlandIslands #HikingAland
#Hiking #InMy #Summer #Wonderland

Photo of a very clear rainbow where one end looks like it's going into a house.

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#introduction

Hello (again), after a brief posting hiatus and a search for somewhere to migrate to, I am back on Mastodon! I've been on the fediverse since 2023 but grew tired of the mastodon.social experience and felt like it was time to spread my wings.

A bit about me: I'm a 30-something fellow living in midwestern USA who works two jobs and takes care of two pets at home. I love #retrocomputing #retrogaming #writing #webdesign #electronicmusic #nature and many more things I can't think to list at the moment.

I manage a community for PC gaming on 4:3 displays that has gained a significant following in recent times, you can check us out on #neocities here: https://doesit4by3.neocities.org/

Sometimes when I have free time and feel motivated (lol) I will write a few thousand words on tech and tech-adjacent subjects. You can read my work here: https://read-only.net/

All other relevant things I've shared on the web can be found on various parts of my website: https://rootcompute.neocities.org/

Glad to have found somewhere to land on my feet and I hope I'll be able to call c.im home on the fediverse for many years to come!

#introductions #mastodon #fediverse

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20% Off Labor Day Sale!! Daisy In The Meadow/ Available here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/daisy-in-the-meadow-tina-lecour.html

#animal #animalKingdom #animals #flower #flowers #farming #mastoart #nature #naturelovers #fediart #fedigiftshop #creativetoots #wallart #art #artforsale #arte #artprints #artshop #homedecor #interiordecor #interiordesign #painting #paintings #fineart #gifts #cow #giftideas #puzzle #puzzles #buyintoart #ayearforart

An acrylic canvas of a curious black and white cow wanders through a meadow of cheerful white daisies beside a peaceful country cottage.

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Crest of Curiosity

Here’s an image for tufted titmouse (scientific name) lovers. It kind of reminds me of a little guy in a uniform, standing with his hands behind his back, watching a parade go by. I said “guy,” but honestly I have no idea — tufted titmice aren’t sexually dimorphic, so this one could just as easily be a she.

Tufted titmice are a favorite among a select group of bird enthusiasts. To celebrate these charming creatures, I’ve curated a special collection dedicated entirely to them in my photo gallery. Take a look!

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #tuftedtitmouse