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Helping connect folks with the planet through my quirky nature and science-y essays. Dad, arborist, writer, former homesteader. Find my books in Canada at https://www.amazon.ca/Birds-Happiness-Arent-Blue-educational/dp/B0CCZSY8N9
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BAD INTENTIONS IN THE AIR

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well, i don't live in the u.s. any more, but i have long believed that it's a crime to call any human being 'illegal.'

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We all know the moon affects us. Here's proof: #writingcommunity #writers #author #nature #moon #mentalhealth #sleep #lunar www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/our-...

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via Matt Alley - Blue Collar Writer

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Dating advice from nature: beware of cannibals and parasites. #inverts #nature #writingcommunity #writers #author #parthenogenesis #anglerfish www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/05/our-...

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250 year old Tower #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #Hiking #Phonephotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

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Great Blue Heron, casually standing in a tree. 🪶

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My essay just published today in The Saturday Evening Post: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/05/our-...

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A fork in the path and I chose the least traveled….

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

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via @caitoz.bsky.social

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Swamp in Spring #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Phonephotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

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#Photography By Mustafa Akarsu #Moss #Landscape #Rocks #Trees

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Pretty darned great: wanderingwakefield.com/2025/04/27/h... #birds #WritingCommunity #Quebec #writers #nature

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Seeing birds and hearing birdsong make us happy, and this effect increases with species diversity. #writingcommunity #writers #nature #birds www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/06/our-...

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wow!

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#Amsterdam! #knitting #art #streetart #travel #photography #bicycle #velo #tricoter #dailyphoto #unephotoparjour #stricken

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In honour of Earth Day, here is a piece I did on home gardening for beginners, published today. #writer #WritingCommunity #gardens www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/04/our-...

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#Photography #acoloradAyPRIL #Gold #Sunbeam

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Happy Earth Day! Today also marks the birthday of the late Julian Koenig, who coined the name. #EarthDay #JulianKoenig #EarthDay2025 #Environmentalism #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$

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Boats and a Broken Tree #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Leica #M11 #35mmSummilux

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Branching out. Knightshayes, Devon. April 2025. #tree #branches #monochrome #blackandwhite #bark #Classicmono #photography

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if you're a trauma survivor, this is for you. #csasurvivor #healing #CPTSD #WritingCommunity #Author #AmWriting #resilience #courage www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/04/all-...

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Unknown Photography #Ladybirds #GoldenRatio #Nature #Photography

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can't resist reposting a cool critter like this.

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A spring that flows from a living tree in Turkey. Incredible fountain tree in Montenegro👇 earthlymission.com/dinosa-mulbe...

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not only is this a super-cool image, the eastern white pine in the centre is a lot more ancient than its size suggests. neat stuff!

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#fungifriends

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#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #nature

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Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs #Bugs #inverts #arthropods #nature www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/04/our-...

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I write to make people laugh. Sure, you'll learn cool stuff about nature, that's beside the point. Books are gluten-free, portable; one size fits all. Product of Canada. #writingcommunity #books #writers #nature #science #animals #birds #funny 🇨🇦 🌎 🧪 🌍 ❤️📖 🌍 🌏 www.amazon.ca/Birds-Happin...

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Yep.

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By Pablo Gonzalez #Photography #SunRays #DappledLight #Trees #Nature

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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Lincoln MA #BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette #EastCoastKin

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If fossil fuel fuel companies were forced to pay for all the damage & social murder they've done they'd all go bankrupt "Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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