Swan

Swan. 31. It/they. Physicist and nature appreciator. Love creatures and/or species.

[unaffiliatedbird]

tumblr would've appreicated the one about the spiders

i havent heard the one about the spiders

tell me the one about the spiders

knock knock its spiders

spiders who

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[fractiousrvt]

I'm so sad this blew down in the high winds, but one of my neighbor's redwood trees had an albino branch!

Even the wood was lighter. So pretty.

[apsciencebylyn]

Day 13 of my 2024 favorites: Pitcheresque

My favorite local haunt has a few patches of pitcher plants in various spots and they always make me happy. On a particularly rough mental day early in the year I caught a patch blooming at sunset. They were lovely. 💛

[samsketchbook]

How to Decay Gracefully (ink redux)

[samsketchbook]

small restock of this as a poster in my shop: :)

[charminggreekdemigod]

[daringdoombringer]

hi here’s a cool bird I betcha didn’t know existed, ✨the wallcreeper✨

it literally looks like a monarch butterfly it’s so cute

[nattousan]

the creeperrrrrrrrr

[celestial-games]

Improved my tiger beetle sprites. I think they look much better now :) and for every reblog this post gets I'll add one additional tiger beetle species to the game.

The problem with the old sprites was that tiger beetles are like 90% leg and at rest they like to stand with their legs sprawled out and their antennae out, and it was hard to get all that leg in a 32x32 sprite and still illustrate the elytra pattern. To fix this I gave them 48x48 sprites which gives them much more room to breathe and look natural.

The old sprites for comparison:

[beausbugbiome]

Another bug game?! YES please!!

[dwmmphotography]

On this Scavenger Sunday we visit a northern raven enjoying an orange. That was stolen from bears.

[mossworm]

for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.

now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?

friends, today I caught the animal:

[polkadotmotmot]

Hei Myung Hyun - Branches 1306, 2014 - Mixed Media on canvas

[claypigeonpottery]

@unwanted-dandelion-seeds

(about this guy)

a kiln god is a small clay sculptural creature that stays on/in/near a kiln while it’s firing, to watch over the pottery inside and protect it

mine are all vaguely humanoid and holding pottery, but they can be anything

a lot of people leave their kiln gods unglazed, and only ever make one or two. because I work with a shared kiln, my kiln gods have to be inside the kiln so they don’t get bumped or broken, so it makes more sense to glaze them and keep making more

(^this one I kept, she lives on my pottery desk)

people have lots of little traditions around kilns and pottery. there are so many variables to successfully finishing a piece of pottery, and many of the steps are out of our control. it’s nice to have a kiln god watching over our work

if you take a pottery class, your teacher might mention the kiln gods. for some potters/studios they’re more of a concept than anything physical

what can I say, humans just love to make little guys

[loveisinthebat]

Buddy Pile

[0ddoblivion]

Look at this absolute unit I found on my walk today.

[ashtoberr]

we're just innocent men

[0ddoblivion]

Decided to paint outside in a storm to see what would happen.

[0ddoblivion]

I gave her flowers so maybe she won’t haunt me.

[notbecauseofvictories]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

[cameoappearance]

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

[naturalist-journal]