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Ramadasa sp., family Noctuidae, Malaysia

This moth has no common name in English.

photographs by Daniel Meier

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In the garden. Värmland, Sweden (4 July 2020).

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Various odds and ends from the Blackwater River Canyon and Canaan Valley, captured earlier in the week before a massive heat dome set in across the East Coast. The Blackwater River and tributaries were at full flow from several days of heavy rain and the spruce-hemlock woods looked damp, lush and mysterious, the way I love them. On any given weekday, the white tails seem to outnumber the human beings in the valley - many skittish fawns leaping and darting about their mamas this past week. On the downside, the black flies are now at their summer peak, and they can make a long hike a miserable experience. But I love this place dearly, and biting bugs are but a small price to pay for a couple days of restorative communion with Mother Nature.

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Shenandoah National Park. Greene, Virginia. Photo by Andrea Moscato.

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The hot, steamy days of summer have arrived, and on this particular Saturday a week of intermittent rain had transformed the verdant cove forest along Quarry and Clay Runs in Coopers Rock State Forest into a muggy, dripping wonderland. Hardly surprising - Appalachia's cove forests are temperate rainforests, absorbing and slowly releasing enormous amounts of rainfall and creating the conditions for moss, fungi and ferns to grow on anything and everything that doesn't move, living and non-living. Photos above are from the ever gorgeous Mont Chateau Trail, which features a thousand foot elevation change from Cheat Lake to Henry Clay Iron Furnace, bordered on one side by a steep ravine and on the other by beathtaking rock formations and sprawling rhododendron thickets.

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Some flies from this week

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24 hours in the Superstitions

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by Gerda Wegener

herpsandbirds

Golden silk orb weaver photo from July 31, 2025 in the Florida Big Bend.

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Tiny Landscapes, Olympic National Park

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A dousing of weekend rain illuminates the moss in the old growth hemlock forest along Little Laurel Run in Coopers Rock State Forest. The gifts of late May in Central Appalachia's old woods include false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum), Indian cucumber (Medeola virginiana), speckled wood lily (Clintonia umbellulata), and mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium).

sacredlittleember

land spirits do not have to be dramatic.

sometimes reverence for land starts very simply:

learning the names of local plants. noticing where water gathers. thanking a tree before taking from it. picking up trash. leaving a place better than you found it. sitting quietly long enough to feel the mood of the land.

animism is not always spectacle.

sometimes it is relationship, attention, and care.