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common_natureWelcome to common_nature!
I am one of your glorious moderators,melannen. Your other glorious moderator is 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.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.
common_nature! I am one of your glorious moderators,
melannen. Your other glorious moderator is 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.
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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Date: 2010-03-12 09:56 pm (UTC)I grew up (and still live) on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, about ninety minutes' drive from both the sea and the mountains, and somehow I still never manage to get to either of them often enough. I envy you growing up that close to the water, though: we get to the beach just often enough for me to miss it terribly without ever going enough for me to really *learn* it.
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Date: 2010-03-13 12:30 am (UTC)I also count myself lucky, though, because Northeastern Florida has such rich plant life to go along with the ocean. Our house had live oaks! A block from the beach! IDK, I've been to other beaches and it just hasn't been the same. (My icon is a perfect representation of what it looked like in my hometown.)
Now I think my ideal place to live would be the SF/Santa Cruz area, because it has this awesome mix of the beach and the mountains, all within minutes of each other.