#nature Timeline

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In between am #Fotomontag 🥰

Dieses Foto zeigt eine einzelne, leuchtend gelbe Blume, die sich von einem Hintergrund aus zarten, rosa und grünen Knospen abhebt. Die Blume ist scharf fokussiert, während die Knospen im Hintergrund weichgezeichnet sind, was der Komposition Tiefe und einen traumhaften Charakter verleiht. Das Licht fällt sanft auf die gelbe Blüte und hebt ihre zarten Blütenblätter und den orangefarbenen Kern hervor. Die umgebenden Knospen bilden eine üppige, fast wolkenartige Masse, deren Farbverlauf von hellem Grün über zartes Rosa bis hin zu einem tieferen Pink reicht.

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#FotoVorschlag: Objekte, die mit "W" beginnen oder so aussehen // Objects beginning with "W" or resembling it

Wasser im #Wald
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Water in the woods

#forest #woodland #Bach #stream #brook #nature #Natur #ForestFriday #moss #Moos #Mosstodon #ThuringianForest #ThüringerWald

A dense forest with tall pine trees with textured bark, a shallow stream of clear water flowing over large moss-covered boulders and rocks, creating small cascades. The forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, patches of bare earth, and bright green moss, with a gentle slope rising in the background under natural daylight.

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Flipping.rocks is a Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc and who are open to helping other people appreciate them.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin account @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Nature #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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I'm happy that my watercolor painting 'Little Blue Tit on a branch' won third place in the Fine Art America contest 'Painting with yellow white green black blue only'.

--> https://fineartamerica.com/featured/little-blue-tit-on-a-branch-karen-kaspar.html

#art #painting #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #birds #BirdArt #birding #nature #BirdWatching #wildlife #vogel #cute #animals #handmade #blaumeise #bluetit #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #BirdsOfMastodon

‘Little Blue Tit on a Branch’ is a portrait-format watercolor painting hand-painted by the artist Karen Kaspar.
A little blue tit sits on a thin branch, looking to the right. Its blue and yellow plumage is reflected in the soft green tones of the abstract background.
Blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) are welcome visitors to the bird feeder and in my garden. I love watching them and they are always a welcome subject for new paintings.

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Someone didn't skip leg day for #ThickTrunkTuesday 🦵

#tree #trees #Baum #Bäume #roots #Wurzeln #nature #Natur #ForestFriday #forest #Wald #woodland #TreeTuesday #mosstodon #Moos #moss #FranklinFalls #Snoqualmie #Washington #PNW

Exposed, gnarled tree roots, thickly covered in moss, twist above a carpet of forest floor moss in a dense woodland. Two tree trunks grow tall from these roots, while fallen branches and wood chips lie scattered on the ground. Tall coniferous trees with moss-covered trunks fill the background, creating a lush, green scene.

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For the first time, astronomers have detected sugar molecules (erythrulose, to be precise) in deep space, floating near the center of our galaxy. It adds to the evidence for complex prebiotic carbon chemistry in interstellar clouds, even before planets form.

https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/astronomers-detect-first-sugar-in-interstellar-molecular-clouds/104/web/2026/07 #space #science #nature

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array spans 1,000 light-years. At the center of the MeerKAT image the region surrounding the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole blazes bright. Huge vertical filamentary structures echo those captured on a smaller scale by Webb in Sagittarius C’s blue-green hydrogen cloud. Like a super-long exposure photograph, MeerKAT shows the bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia, capturing the dynamic nature of the Milky Way’s chaotic core.

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

Heading Home -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/heading-home-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

May the artwork take you to a place of serenity and peace.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #birds #nature #sunset #ocean #beach #pacific #oregon #peace #flying #sale

Canvas print of seagulls flying at sunset.

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≪ Fütterung der “Moorkatzen” ≫

Heute waren insgesamt vier hungrige Mäuler an den »Näpfen« und sie waren mit zwei Dosen Katzenfutter und Katzensticks zufrieden. 😀

#photography #fotografie #foto #photo #postprocessed #myphoto #mywork #ownwork #nature #natur #umwelt #katzen #cats #moorkatzen #catsofmastodon

Bildbeschreibung: Die Moorkatzen beim Fressen.

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I will never understand the obsession with making nature "clean" 🤔😁

#Lawn #FuckLawns #Green #Clean #Nature #Leaves #Litter

Six photos of animals among leaves captioned, 'Leaves are not litter'.

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Silent Sunday... 🌄

#Photography #Photograph #Photo #SilentSunday #Nature #Scenery #Trees #Lake #Mountains

Background: Blue sky with wispy high clouds...
Middleground: Larger close mountain on the left and a further smaller mountain on the right... The mountains are rocky with mostly leafless trees...
Foreground: Mostly frozen lake shaded from whites to blues... Two leafless bushes center near the camera...

Created: 2/21/2018 12:12pm
Aperture: ƒ∕1.8
Exposure: 1∕1656 s
ISO: 20
Focal Length: 3.99 mm

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A cup of coffee, a good book, and time by the river: it's a trinity of peace.

Autumnal Reflections canvas print -- https://www.pictorem.com/2634419/autumnal-reflections/

Free shipping in the U.S. and Canada.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #river #peace #country #rural #fall #autumn #blue #colorful #decor #wallart #canvasart #freeshipping

Picture of a country river, hanging in the dining room.

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This abandoned power station is from 1930.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #river ##history

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NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK TO READ

My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).

Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.

As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.

The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.

https://archive.org/details/the-wild-ethics-and-anti-politics

#politics #anarchism #anarchy #wild #wildlife #feral #nature #books #writing #queer #nihilism #indigenous #civilization

Image of tree roots in dark earth with the words "the wild: ethics and anti-politics" overlaid.

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#Monochrome #Photography #Nature #Japan

Three large overlapping lily pads like crinkled pancakes occupy most of the space in this square format shot. The camera looks down on a single lily flower, silky tissues pulled methodically from a box. In the bottom right corner a fourth lily pad curls in on itself like a hot dog bun. The tones of the dark lily pads are leathery black with highlights picking out the crimped edges.

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C’était la plus grande crainte des astronomes : les miroirs géants en orbite approuvés par les autorités américaines
#Astronomie #Espace #Nature #Sciences
Le projet de satellites-miroirs de Reflect Orbital a été validé par les régulateurs américains. La promesse : apporter la lumière du Soleil à la demande, n'importe où sur la planète à tout moment de -->
https://www.numerama.com/sciences/2296675-cetait-la-plus-grande-crainte-des-astronomes-les-miroirs-geants-en-orbite-approuves-par-les-autorites-americaines.html
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:25:00 +0000

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This week was the 18th birthday of fortnightly run route through southwestern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. This is my 10.1 km route where I've been counting and mapping all the birds and butterflies and assorted other species.

I started the route on 9 July 2008, while on parental leave, pushing my baby daughter around in a buggy during her afternoon nap. I wanted her to be able to know how the city's nature changes over her lifetime. I've been doing it ever since (and have added three other routes to cover other parts of the city).

In celebration of the route's 18th birthday, here are all the korimako (NZ bellbirds) I've seen and heard. Korimako have been a huge success story for the city. The native forest regeneration and pest control happening in the city's Port Hills have led to booming numbers of korimako, and the native tree plantings in the city have been attracting birds out from the hills.

As my run route has shown, within the city the korimako are mostly in areas of native tree plantings and in gardens with mature bird nectar plants (especially kōwhai, banksia, eucalyptus, and harakeke). Korimako are still largely absent from the areas of housing that don't have any of these.

(We still need many more native trees in the city if we want more native birds.)

#wildcounts #EcologicalMonitoring #birds #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NZ #nature #ecology

A photo of the olive green fluffy butt of a korimako (NZ bellbird). This was one of two male birds feeding from flowers in a kōwhai tree I planted as a seedling (taken from my Granny's house) in the garden of our old house. This garden is now owned by some friends of ours.

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8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ten-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-184204801.html

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

Photo of a smiling boy holding two black and white-coloured butterflies

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed
to recognise him. He spent two years designing
an experiment and proved that metamorphosis
does not erase memories formed during the
caterpillar stage.

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Made by Hand serves as both a philosophical manifesto and a practical manual for artists seeking to reclaim the "human mark" in an age of digital automation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPcnZRiSDAShMOZXghgZBt1KD1XFt84d/view?usp=sharing

#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt

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Do you love sunflowers?

Check out my album with sunflower paintings

Europe
--> https://www.artheroes.de/index/523/de/Karen-Kaspar/shop-search/151394?query=sonnenblumen

US
--> https://karenkasparartprints.com/collections/sunflower+paintings

#art #painting #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #flowers #garden #floral #nature #aquarell #aquarelle #natur #blumen #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #bloomscrolling #florespondence #handmade

Collage of nine handmade paintings of sunflowers with bright yellow and orange petals, by Karen Kaspar

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Many thanks to an art lover from The Netherlands for purchasing canvas prints of my hand painted acrylic paintings Sparrow meeting part one and part three.
May this artworks fill your heart and home with joy.

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#sparrow #sperling #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #creativeToots #BuyIntoArt #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #birding #nature #BirdWatching #wildlife #handmade