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22 March 2024 - Friday Field Notes
Rabbitbrush (top), Spring Mountain Parsley (bottom left), Fringed Sage (bottom right)
The Spring Equinox was earlier this week and while the calendars might say it's spring, some days it doesn't necessarily feel like it. The prairie is beautiful, but it's a harsh place to live sometimes. There is limited water and the climate alternates frequently between extremes. So even though the calendars say spring, the prairie is slow to wake up. The patient sort, the prairie knows to wait.
Most people might think it's too early to start even thinking about gardening, but that depends on the types of plants you're planting. Many domesticated garden varieties of plants and agricultural crops have been selectively breed to reduce seed dormancy for human benefit. The seeds from domesticated plants germinate more readily and more consistently than their wild cousins. Which makes them easier to grow, harvest, and eat, but because of that they require a lot more babying and care. Wild plants are much tougher.
Seeds are living organisms, the offspring of plants, and they contain everything a seedling needs so it can germinate and grow. Wild seeds are incredibly patient, they will wait months, sometimes years, before they will even consider growing. Some have armor so thick that it has to be chipped away at by rocks and ice, freeze and thaw cycles, before water and air can even get to the seed. Others contain acids and hormones that have to be used up between specific temperature ranges before they'll even think about sprouting. While others, not fully developed, are knocked off the fronds and petals of their parents, children that brave the elements and just prefer to wait and see. Wild seeds do not rely on a calendar, because they know and can feel when it is truly spring. When it is safe for them to finally venture out into the world and grow.
I have no idea if this Rocky Mountain Bee Plant that I planted will grow this season. It's suggested to do fall plantings so it'll overwinter. It has a very thick and tough seed coat. I'm hoping the abrading I did and the snow might help it along a little. If not, it'll be a surprise for next year.
A couple of Pronghorn lads enjoying the trail.
CW: dead animal, road kill below cut
This Beaver was hit by a car trying to cross the road. Underneath the road there is a storm drain that connects a retention pond and feeds into the creek at the site that I work at. The storm drain is grated off, to help improve the flow of water and to make sure detritus doesn't get stuck in the channel, which increases the chances of flooding. Because this Beaver was trying to follow the water and because the drain was grated off, they had no choice but to cross the heavily trafficked road. It's unfortunate that urban infrastructure often does not consider the needs of all living things. Grating off that storm drain means no wildlife can use it as safe passage.
I salvaged the tail from this Beaver for educational purposes for work, the rest them was too far gone to keep, so my coworker and I moved them off the road and onto the shoulder a safe distance away from any cars.
Most likely this Beaver will first become food for scavengers, Coyotes and Corvids, before it starts to decompose. Insects will lay their eggs on its rotting flesh so their larvae will have something to eat, perhaps the fur will become a part of someones nest, and then the bones will bleach. Crumble to dust and return to the soil to feed the billions of microorganisms beneath. It will help the plants grow. Maybe some day, it might even help another Beaver live.
It's sad this Beaver died, but in nature nothing is wasted and nothing is forgotten. Life and death are so inextricably linked and one does not exist without the other.
And heck, maybe that Beaver tail I kept might inspire a future engineer. Help them build a better and more compassionate storm drain.
#nature#friday field notes#little ghost on the prairie#plants#seed dormancy#spring season#short grass prairie#rabbit brush#spring mountain parsley#fringed sage#pronghorn#beaver#cw: dead animal
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Top (my own photos): Long-horned beetle [Cerambycidae family] (Megacyllene robiniae), a.k.a. locust borer beetle on rabbitbrush (chamisa) (Ericameria nauseosa). Mimicry (of wasp) or camouflage on rabbit brush - or both?
Bottom: Wasp on Rabbit brush
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Thought this scene from After Everything was Fixed (but you were still broken) by @bones-of-a-rabbit was really cute. had a lot of fun reading it and have a couple more artworks queued up for it.
#it looks weird cause i tried to render with my pencil brush and idk why i did that#after everything was fixed (but you were still broken)#bones of a rabbit#fnaf#fnaf sb#fnaf security breach#digital art#my art#art#fan art#fnaf sun#fnaf daycare attendant#fnaf superstar daycare#fnaf au#daycare attendant#daycare attendant sun#artwork#fnaf staff bot#staff bot reader au
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Sonic Gurls doodle page :~P
rbs very appreciated!!!
#my art#digital art#sth#princess elise#procreate art#rouge the bat#amy rose#cream the rabbit#cheese the chao#doodles#doodle page#im actually so proud of the new brush I made I think it looks so awesum
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Hug all your (boy)friends
#fnaf#ggy#beckory#detective rabbit#gregory#tony becker#fnaf security breach#fnaf tales from the pizzaplex#tales from the pizzaplex#tftp#fnaf tftp#five nights at freddy's#kikiart#i was listening to the song being referenced a lot earlier#made me think abt them#tried new brushes n effects too... lemme know what yall think :]#everyone point and laugh at Gregory being too short too. he is on tiptoes
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do robots dream of electric sheep? do robots have nightmares of murders committed in their sleep?
have you slept, or are you afraid of things that in the dark creep?
#bones of a rabbit#bones of a rabbit fic#fnaf fanfic#fnaf au#readerbot fic#after everything was fixed fic#after everything was fixed (but you were still broken)#fanfic art#doodles#sketches#fnaf moon#fnaf moon x reader#fnaf moon x y/n#staffbot reader#animatronic reader#repairbot reader au#tw blood#tw violence#was trying out some new brushes last night n liked this one quite a bit#even tho my style makes it rlly messy looking hhfskjdhfj#anyway sdfjksdh srry for only drawing readerbot stuff i just think they r neat#also drawing guilty robots is my coping mechanism. dont look at me like that
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Hey do u think any of the district 23 chefs have ever gotten 'ingredients' from R corp. All that meat has to go somewhere, unless R corp is pulling a soylent green
I'm sure there are plenty of places that could actually manage to use 'ingredients' from R corp seeing as there's absolutely a surplus! Although, anyone who's procuring fresh 'ingredients' for the sake of the culinary arts...may end up with more of a mess than they bargained for...
#limbus company#ryoshu#gregor#ishmael#heathcliff#meursault#<- last two implied#gore#cannibalism#<- implied#driftoodles#i do absolutely think R corp does deals with the W corp backstreets to soylent green btw#they fell on hard times after Lobcorp fell so I imagine on top of partnering with t corp for training#like. in the hatcheries. they probably export the excess bodies to W corp backstreet syndicates#which later get procured by various eateries and probably exported back as ration bars#rhe issue ofc comes with people who wanna use live meats like the 8 chefs or aspiring chefs like chef ryoshu or pierre#r corp units as fresh ingredients is NOT a good idea. rhinos are huge and destructive. reindeers will do what ishmael did to her coworkers#rabbits are really your only option...but even then theyre probs not easy to get ahold of#im a firm believer that pierre and jack wouldnt have this problem btw i love them and they play niceys im sure theyd figure it out#but ryoshu and gregor are like in a spy vs spy ass situationship here i think blowing up the meat locker is not the worst they could do#also gomenasorry i wanted to get to use my blood brush again.#off to the sideblog with this post naow...
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Alice in Wonderland but with more crimes I guess (one of which is like, 0.1 second away)
#jinmao#jinshi#mao mao#I’m imagining Gaoshun as the pocket watch rabbit and I feel so sorry for him lol#he’s overworked and stressed out no matter what universe he’s in#can’t wait to see these dorks again in season 2#the apothecary diaries#kusuriya no hitorigoto#my art#this new brush has got to my best purchase in 2024 I’m so happy!
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Sorry, not sorry, a moot of mine on Twitter gave me a dumb idea to do Aladdin Leosagi
#my art#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#save rottmnt#save rise of the tmnt#unpause rottmnt#unpause rise of the tmnt#rise season 3#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt leosagi#leosagi#fyp#rottmnt leo#rottmnt leonardo#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt movie#usagi yuichi#the usagi chronicles#samurai rabbit#leoichi#aladdin#disney#nickelodeon#leo borrowed a spare jasmine wig he found somewhere to complete the look#tried out different brushes for this piece this time
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Canonically annoying sexy goat oc
#my art#furry#my oc art#webster#fursona tag#mara#magma has pretty good brushes tbh#rabbit furry#goat furry
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22 September 2023 - Friday Field Notes
Field work is not glamorous.
It doesn’t matter what field you work in. Often times you’re outside for hours on end, the weather doesn’t cooperate when you need it too, you’re covered in sweat, in dirt, you’re overworked, you’re underpaid, your organization is understaffed, you don’t have the resources or the equipment you need to do the work, and trying to get people to give a shit and effect the change that needs to happen is a perpetual uphill battle that rivals Sisyphus’s eternal punishment. But you adapt, you improvise, and you do the work anyway.
Because it’s important. Because it matters. To me. To you. And to every living thing on this planet. You do it so things can grow and thrive.
Part of my job doing restoration work is removal and management of invasive species, like this Mullein pictured above. Now, Mullein is a plant that originated in Europe and Asia and was brought over to North America for cultivation purposes.
However, it didn't originate in the ecosystems in N. America, didn't evolve along with the local flora and fauna, it has no biological checks in the Great Plains to keep it from overrunning an area like it would in Europe or Asia. Not having any biological checks allows species to create monocultures, which isn't great because it reduces the overall biodiversity of an ecosystem, making it less robust and unable to support the vast array of wildlife you should find in a given area. Some species in the Great Plains do utilize the Mullein as a resource, but again, since it didn't evolve here many species are essentially losing food and habitat because of this plant.
Monocultures also reduce the effectiveness of a habitat's ecosystem services that help support life for all living organisms. Including us. Clean air, clean water, nutrient rich soil to support the growth of food, capturing carbon to sequester to reduce climate change... All reliant on biodiversity. All reliant on populations of native plants.
It's not enough to just remove invasive species though. You can't take something out, without putting something back in. Good land management and stewardship practices should also restore ecosystems. Rabbitbrush and Rocky Mountain Bee Plant are both species that are native to my local area, and are a resource for all manner of species.
And that Bee Plant, we planted that last season. It was the only one that grew, but look at all the seed pods on that thing! Hopefully those seeds will go on to make even more Bee Plants and support even more wildlife!
I watched this documentary series last week for work and I'd highly recommend it. It's about the native seed supply chain in the western United States for restoration efforts. A really large area, that needs as much helps as it can get.
https://ser-insr.org/native-seed-film - You can watch it in sections, or they have a couple of different lengths depending on the time you have. But if you only have 12 minutes to give, for sure watch the introduction.
Now, I'd like to point out, these large scale efforts are important, but restoration efforts don't have to be big or elaborate. If you have a spare planting pot or a backyard, you have the ability to restore native habitat. You can bring those ecosystems to you. And it doesn't necessarily require you tearing out your whole yard or sacrificing the plants you do grow.
It may require a bit more homework (you're gonna have to research what plants are native to where you live), and some trial and error, but there are a lot of gorgeous native plants out there that require very little work once they're established compared to "traditional" garden plants.
Humans have carved out huge swathes of land for our own purposes, often to the detriment of other living things and ourselves. We've destroyed entire habitats and ecosystems due to human vanity and simply walked away. Cut our losses. Those habitats and ecosystems are lost. But the land is not gone. And who's to say all those things that are lost can't be found.
It's not easy work, but with some compassion, and a little bit of knowledge, and the willingness to be patient, perhaps we can weave the land back together. Not the way it was, but rather better.
A ghost can dream, right? And perhaps this Pronghorn does too.
It's hard to appreciate the subtle beauty of the prairie. It's not a forest. Not the ocean. Most people might only see grass and not see the richness. The diversity. But I've done a shit-ton of digging this week to try and install a native plant garden.
Field work, manual labor and sweating outside with a shovel, is not glamorous.
But I'm doing this so people can hopefully see the beauty of the prairie, so they can see the beauty in the land around them and perhaps consider planting some native plants of their own. So every living thing out here, big or small, can have a home.
And here's a Megacyllene (sp?), probably a Locust Borer Beetle. It has wasp stripes to dissuade predators from trying to eat it.
#nature#field notes friday#restoration work#short grass prairie#plants#habitat restoration#native plants#locust borer beetle#pronghorn#rocky mountain bee plant#rabbit brush#mullein#land management#land stewardship#native seed restoration#little ghost on the prairie
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Anyone keeping rodents or rabbits or parrots in the market for some mulberry chews?
We had to take down two mulberry trees in the bird pens today in order to allow for redoing the overhead netting and repair of a support post, so I have a TON of fresh, organic, pesticide-and-fertilizer-free mulberry wood I can dry and bake for chews right now. The wood is sweet-smelling and on the softer side, and it tends to shred instead of chipping like apple wood. My mice and rats loved shredding out pieces and putting it into their nests. Wood will be cut, air-dried in the house, and baked.
Safe wood for at least rats, mice, rabbits, chinchillas, and guinea pigs to chew and safe for parrots EXCEPT possibly neophema species (diuretic effects were noted in just this species when consuming leaves, but play it safe).
#rat#rodent#mouse#rabbit#guinea pig#mice#longfeather lane#I'd rather spend the time to make use of it#but if no one's interested I won't wear my hands out doing it#I have plenty of brush pile space and a big firepit#figured I would offer though#Probably price it by weight post-bake
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Somewhere on the other side…
#my art#art#drawing#mickey mouse#jai art#oswald the lucky rabbit#gremlin gus#minnie mouse#epic Mickey AU#since Mickey is technically gone Oswald now uses the paint brush#also I’m still trying to get us to drawing Gus :’)#Animatronic Mickey AU#epic mickey#unfortunately for Minnie she doesn’t know her Mickey is gone#she been searching for him for 3 years by now#traditional art#sketch book
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I know some may take this out of context so I'll blur it lol
Pure pure miku!
#rabbit hole#art#art style#lazy art#cute#cartoon#default brushes#fanart#hatsune miku#miku hatsune#miku#deco*27#idk if this is allowed hel
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Flower field! 🌺 🌻
#cream the rabbit#cheese the chao#sonic the hedgehog#sth#toma draws#this was originally a brush test with a ton of grass and flower brushes from last year#i was having too much fun with it and slapped cream and cheese on top :]#i kept meaning to polish it more but. i kinda don't feel like it and i like it as is so im calling it done kajsfhj#we can all collectively pretend cream's lack of arms is a stylistic choice#i need to remember wtf i was doing with the shading colors on cream bc i love that actually i wanna do that again
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