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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: 2010-03-13 12:06 pm (UTC)I live in the Berkshires of Southern New England, which is climate zone Dfb (snow, full humid, warm summers) and part of the Northeastern Coastal Forest. I grew up on a small farm and live now on the outer edge of exurbia.
All my life I've been interested in Nature - weather, plants and animals - and in the turning of the seasons; a very informal but rewarding kind of phenology, in other words.
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Date: 2010-03-15 02:18 am (UTC)And I love the idea of phenology, formal or otherwise. It's so easy to not notice in a lot of places people live these days, and it's such a terrible thing to miss.
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Date: 2010-03-15 05:56 pm (UTC)Also, there is software, available as shareware or purchased, from Life Cycles, for tracking stuff on your own computer.
(and now I have some catching up reading to do; I introduced myself but neglected to join or subscribe *facepalm* and so have missed everyone's posts for days. Hee! Such an airhead.)