Kind of encompasses everything. keep it clean and interesting if you would.
I hope you like this crittur. He is bigger than my thumb and wider. It burrows at an unbelievable speed. Drills would envy this guy
Here’s a cactus, a frozen stream near the side of a mountain, and a plant in my friend’s yard which had a little snow on it. All taken with the trusty cell phone camera.
Awesome Jumping cactus! Hate them but, miss them too. These phones can take good photos.
Well I got the wrong end of the stick I was expecting a load of nubile women playing volley ball. oops.
But if it’s nature you want try this:
It’s a wasp laying it’s eggs in a spider, that’s nature for you, the buggers will hatch and devour the spider from the inside. Beautifully complex and evolutionary, but sometimes I think a cracking pair of norks appeals more. Nature for me is at once amazing and at the same time horrifying. Human nature of course the more so, makes a fly laying eggs in an organism look like tea with the Vicar after cricket on the green. 
So far I like all of these pics.
For humor: This is Berry. She scratches her belly on the cement blocks that went under an old home. Anything in a pinch. I made sure my employers left these blocks when I saw the cows and horses used them for the itchies 
Cute. Props.
Sometimes nature is nice, apologies if I didn’t make that clear, did not want to come off sounding like all nature is a freak show, of course that’s just human nature, it’s generally the most terrifying.
Aahh naah, can’t do philo on this thread without producing respectable nature photos.
These Canadians live at my boss’s ranch. Only one gosling remains, coyotes got the other two.
I caught these three pics by total chance as this bird was flying away off the beach in Aruba.
Here’s a few shots of 2 beaches in the Dominican Repubilc, and one of some bugs eating some kind of plant behind my friend’s house in St Augustine.
And here’s three pics, of the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen in person, I think…at least in the way of beaches. Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda. Blows my mind. The beach doesn’t even look real.
And Kris, for you…
If you’d like a handful of these things…I’m headed to New Orleans next Friday around lunch. I can shove as many of these things into the trunk of my car as you need. There were a lot of them before, there have to be hundreds now. They’re all over this place. Lemme know I’ll bring you a whole pile of em. Plus right now, they’re living terrible lives. Look at all those cigarette butts I threw down there. Sometimes, I think they try and eat them. It’s just terrible. They need a better place to be, where they can be free to be ducks and do what ducks do. Or geese. Who knows?
I’m editing to add this pic of an iguana or something that I saw. These things were all over this one island. At first I was excited because I thought it was a rare things to see, then I realized that they were literally everywhere. Some of them are huge. Again, it blew my mind, as so many things so often do.
Gorgeous photos! Even the wasp and spider.
ROTFLMA, Smears you could bring them here, they may stay an hour but in two days they will be right back to your place. Think homing pigeon.
Maybe just break a wing and by the time it heals they may have forgotten where to go and just stay where they are.
Now you want PETA and others on me???
Why do all these Canadians have bandages on their wings?
Hitchiking was rough on em???
Did he learn from Marcus Aurelius or did Marcus learn from him?
So cool so beautiful.
That is a great pic. I was having a conversation about huge cats the other day. It’s like they don’t know they’re huge. Scary sometimes. There’s a white bengal tiger at the local zoo here. If he wasn’t 100 years old and toothless, I’d be scared shitless of him.
Kind of reminds me of how you hang around your own environment, Smears, from what you say. 
Is he/she exhausted from the chase or taking the easy "come hither’ way out? Or perhaps the prize has already been won and the true alpha gets the branch and the other one lies beneath, subservient, in waiting?
Why do you say this? If they can recognize their self through another, wouldn’t they know and their own strength too?
They are breathtakingly beautiful. Would you hug him? Is it possible that if they opened that cage, you’d run?
For something almost larger than life to be kept in captivity like that…I wonder how we would feel to be kept in cages when we’ve done nothing more than to follow our own natures? Okay I mustn’t derail this thread.
The spider’s web is one of the most awesome creations in nature to me. By who’s hands has this been so intricately woven? Blind intuitive instinctive design. At times when I see something such as this in the park, I am incapable of turning my eyes away. Poetry in time and space.
I call this Mediator because of its capacity to draw two things together to create such harmony.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes
~ George Sand
Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth
MIRA!!!