For New Years, the fam went to Captiva Island, FL, which mostly involved kayaking & birding. To celebrate, I drew some of our fav bird friends of @DingDarlingWS.
I don’t think there are ANY nakey ladies on this blog, what am I even doing???
If something happens, you can always find me on my more-active Twitter. I’m also on Instagram as chase_prairie
Today I learned from @BeckSamBar that Ohio Spiderwort opens a new flower every day. She passed on this motto.
Got other plant species mottos? Send them along and maybe I’ll draw them!
If something happens, you can always find me on my more-active Twitter. I’m also on Instagram as chase_prairie
Stumbled across a vid of one of the last dusky seaside sparrows. I’m used to black & white recordings of species now extinct, but not something as recent as 1980. Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens’s habitat, and thus population was destroyed by NASA in an effort to eliminate Kennedy Space Center’s mosquitos.
Words from The Mountain Goats’s Deuteronomy 2:10
Have you seen the good news from @PasturesPolitic? The horses are snacking on native grass hay!
@PasturesPolitic aka Shayan Ghajar is researching switching horses from Eurasian grasses to North American species, & it’s so freakin’ cool. Follow him & learn more!
Putting together some handouts on turning loose comics into printable books. The chances this itself gets turned into a zine are very high.
A week later, when asked to describe the mesic maple forest Abraham’s Woods @UWArboretum, three students at once replied simply:
“Yellow.”
Today we’re botanizing in the dry oak forest at Olsen Woods.
Nice day to draw and botanize at Abrahams Woods
Dear all trans, non-binary, genderqueer, and all non-cis-friends, you matter. This is absolute shit and unacceptable, and I will lend my voice and vote to fight this garbage.
The prairie loves and supports you. Have these plant friends to celebrate you. You are loved.
💙💗💟💗💙
This is a bare minimum gesture but felt more useful than just general keysmashing screaming all over the internet.
Also terfs and anti-trans bigots, the unfollow button is right here
The Blue River Sand Barrens are home to all sorts of rare species that prefer dry sandy hills disturbed by shifting winds.