Nature Bird – by DSV (6yrs5mo, free hand pen & marker on plain paper)

Frida Kahlo said, “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

Today my daughter asked me…

A little firecracker she is…always keeping her Appa on his toes. Made me think for a minute.

Does a spider think of itself as a spider?

I answered with some more questions. We had a conversation about science. And humans. And non-humans. And even what ‘thinking’ is. I daresay we went nowhere.

[Extinction Note #7, Aug 29 2022, 3.10pm]

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We have to understand fungus to have any hopes of co-evolution…

Piles of wood help create habitats for insects aka “Insect Hotels”

Which then helps overall biodiversity.

Cos I don’t know if you’ve heard, but we’re going through an insect Armageddon…and if the insects go, we almost certainly go with them.

Check out this link for some more information on creating wood piles as mini habitats on your property:

https://www.nnrg.org/habitat-piles/

These are some “insect hotels” I created on the fly in the backyard of our family home, 100th Monkey Urban Farm. I’m proud of them and I don’t care what fellow invasives think…ha!

Piles of wood and removed plants constitute Insect Hotel #1 at 100th Monkey.

Tied up twigs constitute the makeup of Insect Hotel #2…

Be well, fellow invasives. For Memento Mori.

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I felt like Rocky did after winning the UFC welterweight championship, when I got the emails from my uncle and aunt yesterday in response for fulfilling a long held dream of opening a nature reserve in my late baby cousin’s name…

I never forgot da, Vaddu…

I never forgot the promise I made to you.

Onward to fulfilling more…

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CCS Simple Experiment (photo essay) – Remove fast spreading, rapidly growing weed like plant…

And see what happens.

Little background:

On our most recent visit to the CCS campsite, I found the place with a rather curious infestation of what I thought was buckthorn. But upon sending photos of the removed plants to professionals at the MITPPC (Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants & Pests Center) at UMN, I received the consensus conclusion that it was/is a poplar with rhizomes.

Check out this link for that previous photo essay – https://loveliberationstruggle.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/ccs-photo-essay-on-buckthorn-a-resilient-innovative-and-tough-plant/

Now, this plant was all over; And all in a matter of a few weeks. I hadn’t noticed them in end May or early June when we were at the campsite prior to this mid August visit.

But it was especially thick on land that had been cleared, such as the garden plot the previous owner had on site. It was joining humans as fellow colonizers.

Thus the first experiment of CCS sprung up. I couldn’t pull it all out from everywhere in the campsite (since, you know, I’m not ten people).

Plus, I actually didn’t want to either. I had already developed a begrudging respect for it’s amazing adaptability and resiliency.

So I decided to mostly just focus on the garden plot. Pull out a bunch. See what happens when we go back in early September. Record findings. Very basic observational empirics.

I took photos of the before and after as best as I could (do bear in mind that I was mostly getting intrinsic value from the workout and my crappy phone only takes photos in black and white).