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Bengal tiger at the Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa

NOVEMBER Animals store food and energy for winter Though the days are shorter, there is a lot of light. Sunlight reaches the forest floor, where evergreen plants happily absorb it. The open skies often fill with geese, gathering as they prepare to head south. Bare branches reveal where birds made their nests. The American beech’s bark is smooth and pale gray but often damaged by beech bark disease. Tiny scale insects dig through the thin bark for sap. Then a fungus moves in, warping the bark. Carpenter ants and other fungi follow, until the softening trunk gives in and snaps. Beechnuts split open and fall after the first hard frost. They are irresistible to wild turkeys, gray jays, and squirrels, and they once sustained enormous flocks of passenger pigeons. Beech’s yellow autumn leaves are fading to tan. Look for its unique terminal buds, like pointed little thorns with scales. The crumpled, paper-thin leaves will hang on all winter, a bit of rustling color in the snowy woods." -Kateri Kosek from The Forest Revealed

November posters and autographed copies of the book are available in my ETSY SHOP now.

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness

Michael Kagerer

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#autumn #осень #дом #кирпичный дом #уют #плющ

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#море #яхта #красота #рассвет

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Autumn at night🌙✨🍂

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𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫 🎃🍁🍂

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#осень #хэллоуин #настроение #лес

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Lynx by Naturfotografie Rosengarten

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When you visit Portugal you don't expect there to find the most gloomy castle you've ever seen

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Quinta da Regaleira

Sintra

Portugal

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The highlight for me at Sintra was the Quinta da Regaleira. This is basically some rich bloke's country estate. I wasn't all that interested in the palace itself - really, once you've seen one stately home you've kinda seen them all - but the guy really went all out with the garden design. Got a lot of freemasonry-type bumf in there, with lots of little statues and grottos dotted around and a network of tunnels underneath everything.

The centrepiece is probably what's called the Initiation Well. This isn't a well in the sense of being a water source - though it is pretty damp down there - but is more of an inverted tower, being a deep pit with a spiral staircase around the outside, eventually leading into the aforementioned tunnels.

You read Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy? This is where they find the doors to the school in the third book. The queue to get down the well wasn't as long as the book implies; it was probably only a 15-minute wait or so.