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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2010-03-11 06:09 pm

Welcome!

Welcome to [community profile] common_nature!

I am one of your glorious moderators, [personal profile] melannen. Your other glorious moderator is [personal profile] elke_tanzer. We made this community because we wanted a place on Dreamwidth to talk about nature, and we hope other people will find it a nice place to stay, too.

What sort of posts are welcome here? Well, I'm planning to start a series of posts about identifying the weeds and shrubs that are flowering in lawns and roadsides in my area. I'll also probably post book reviews and poems and photographs. [personal profile] elke_tanzer has wonderful posts coming up, too. Ask questions, mention something you saw outside today or something you saw in the press; icon posts, fiction with a focus on nature, how-tos, art - all is good! We're all about celebrating the fact that nature is everywhere and anyone can be a naturalist, no matter who they are or where they live.

In the meantime, let's do introductions! If you'd like, tell us a little bit about how you relate to nature and what you'd like to see this community become. And tell us something about what sort of nature you see around you - where do you look when you want to commune with nature? What climate zone or Biome do you live in? I'll start in the comments.
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[personal profile] briarwood 2010-03-12 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Great idea for a community!

I live in Wales, UK which is climate zone Cfb (warm temperate, fully humid, warm summer)...although after last year I'd argue that last bit!

I'm all about the weather *pause for the inevitable Brit jokes*

No, really, I am. I'm not an expert or anything, I just love to observe the way the weather changes throughout the year, and what that does to the landscape around me. Alongside that, I watch the sun and moon. This morning, for instance, on my way to work the sun was shining right in my eyes and it was a bright "Barbie" pink. Tomorrow, even if the weather is the same, it could be a completely different view.