the moons kiss rests on me

spiritual sideblog 31 year old queer pagan, homesteader & poet of celtic & germanic ancestry

[cryptotheism]

It's crazy that you're can just learn about something for real. I wanted to know more about magic now I do. It never stops.

[cryptotheism]

I just want to remind everyone that it is possible to learn things for real in real life.

[herpsandbirds]

Big frog I saw yesterday. Handsome swamp guy!

[sioltach]

Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

[webhoards]

[rosieandthemoon]

Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal

[riverwindphotography]

An iconic Great Grey Owl hunts for voles at dusk, Yellowstone National Park

(c) riverwindphotography, May 2026

[moonwatering]

lilac blooms & birds chirping

[moonwatering]

mid spring blooms

[aplpaca]

big fan of when animals creche. Love to see so many fucking babies in one place

[aplpaca]

So a creche in ecology is a group of animals that take care of their offspring as a group. Grouping together like this can help with protection against predators, finding food, enduring the weather, and gives the parents time to "rest", as sometimes the parents will alternate who's being the primary watchers while others get to hunt by themselves for a bit, like a baby animal daycare.

But ye lions do this once cubs each a certain age. A decent amount of birds do it (for example: flamingos and a lot of penguin, duck, and goose species). Gharials (a type of South Asian crocodilian) form creches with hundreds of babies from multiple nests (they lay under 100 eggs each and sometimes as few as 20). Feral hogs tend to form groups of mothers and young like this, and I saw 3 sows and like 15+ tiny babies the other day and they were so cute

But ye that's how you get pictures like these

[tumorhead]

Rattlesnakes will creche!! In some species mature adult females will hang out together (they're friends!) in shared dens and even birth their clutches together. Then one will babysit while the others go get food. Adult females have been seeing caring for their young like shooing young back into the den when a predator approaches. You can watch LIVE rattlesnake den mothers and all their babies on Project Rattlecam!!!!

[the-future-is-chrome]

repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck

[faggotette]

ecofascist rhetoric getting popular again and i don’t like it one bit

[morganathewitch]

Wood anemones in May, 2026.

[herpsandbirds]

Pearly Tree Frog (Nyctixalus margaritifer), family Rhacophoridae, Java, Indonesia

photographs by Koh Ke Han

[expressions-of-nature]

Logis du Feés, France by Sies Kranen

[riverwindphotography]

Mesmerizing moments

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, May 2026

[morganathewitch]

Reaching for the light.

[cryptonature]

Just planted all of the sprouting potatoes I had in the basement that I harvested from the garden last year and didn’t end up eating over the winter. The circle is complete. Thanks for visiting potatoes. Back to the garden you go.

[osabishi-yama]

石上純也氏 Junya Ishigami – Water Garden, 2018, Nasu Mountains, Japan