all i’ve done today is read about space and feminism hollaaaa

help i’m in love with ke$ha???

• so the other day i was at sandy ridge (local nature reserve) and i was goin around and there were 2 trumpeter swans (a surprise, since the mute swans usually chase them off) and some other birds 
• there was a dude who was running on the trail and he passed me as i was on the part that leads back into the woods, and a male baltimore oriole flew overhead and i noticed that he looked up and saw the bird 
• later when i was back at the nature center area he was drinking water or something and came up to me and asked me what sort of bird we’d seen (i knew!! he was gonna ask about that) and i told him, and then we started talking about the other birds, particularly the swan which he said he was just amazed at their size and thought their necks were really huge
• i shared some bird facts and then i showed him the barn swallow nest and there was a female on the nest and she just stared at us and it was really unusual for a barn swallow to just sit still for so long and let us look at her nest

• then a few weekends ago we were at bradley woods (local woods w/ trails n stuff) and it was dusk and i saw nighthawks!!! so awesome. and then there was a bat too!! and catbirds and eeeee hermit thrushes were singing/calling all over the place and i hadn’t known hermit thrushes nested around here and wheee catbirds
• then a family of deer came really close (i was standing by the swing set) and they walked around me and looked at me and iw as able to figure out the lead doe and her daughter and the leader’s best friend basically, and i tried to commit their faces to memory so i could recognize them the next time i visited bradley woods
• then!!! on the way back to the car, i found a toad in the grass. also there were plenty of canada geese and their children there too. 

so i just found out that L26 Baba was very emaciated in March and that she is missing and presumed dead

and that Grace L2 is now missing as well…the matriarch of L pod…

i’m so incredibly saddened by this. it pains me to think of one of the beautiful, beloved southern residents being emaciated and dying soon after….and to have Grace leave us, it would mean the death of a matriline after her son L88 passes away…(and he’s 20, and many males around this age keep dying, so i dearly hope wave walker keeps alive!!!!) 

it’s just so sad, so upsetting, to hear of the passing of any orca, but especially the southern residents. they’re son endangered; every single member lost is a hard blow to the community and every member gained is a cause for wild celebration. 

here’s to all the calves born recently, but i want to extend a moment of respect for the beautiful Grace and Baba whom have sadly left us

selfies in the sun holla

she’s sittin at the window lookin at birds

dawg and i 

when she sees the camera pop up and herself on screen, she runs around the back of the computer and tries to find whoever is on screen

i tell her, ‘dog, it’s you!!!’ 

((she doesn’t listen))

i’ve MISSED YOU, KITTY!!!!!

i’m in virginia w/ my dad wheeeee

no sleep and watching star trek and worrying about your fish before taking a nap makes for really really disturbing dreams full of mutant zombie bettas that spawn devil bettas and fight themselves and it’s just gross and messes with your head wow

blawhwhwhalhakglajgalkjgal deer dress

happy birthday 2 me 

it has been exactly 1 year since i began this blog!!!!!!

literally i cannot get over the lightning!!!!! so purple and bright and behind the clouds and it filled the sky and i just!!!!!!!!!!!!!! am so excited!!!!!!! nature is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YELLIN SO LOUD

THIS LIGHTNING STORM 

IS THE BEST THING

TO HAPPEN TO ME EVER

EARTH IS SO AWESOME

NATURE!!! LIGHTNING~!!! WHAT HOW EVEN CAN THIS EXIST THIS IS JUST SO SPECTACULAR LIKE???????????? THE ENTIRE SKY???? IS LIGHTNING??? BRIGHT??? LOOK!!!!!!

JUST OHMYGOSH!!!!!!!!

I CANNOT 

I CANNOT EVEN dEAL wITH tHIS!!!!

i cannot dEAL