I regret to inform everyone that my dog is the prettiest dog in the world

I’m staying at a hostel this weekend that’s on a farm and I’m having trouble discerning the level of crunchy that the owners are. Like do you just try to eat organically or are you unvaccinated and don’t allow pasteurized milk on the premises

This time of year really reminds me how enviable the bear lifestyle is. Swim in river. Catch and eat fish. Get big. Sleep for 7 1/2 months. Wake up skinny again. Repeat.

It’s Fat Bear Week eve, make sure to leave 80-90 pounds of raw salmon out for the bears when they visit!

Eva’s catching some rays

Alas, I did not see any moose yesterday despite searching for almost 7 hours. The only trace of them I found was some old tracks. It’s amazing how elusive they are for being so massive.

Going to look for moose this weekend, wish me luck in seeing one/not being killed by a moose

What a cruel world we live in that made bears so fluffy and pettable but also gave them big teeth and claws. I’ve contemplated this a lot over the past few days as the bears visit almost daily in preparation for hibernation.

It’s been really cold and wet so far this month and I’m crossing all of my appendages in hopes that that means we’ll get a really cold and snowy winter. I’m talking several feet of snow by January. I’m talking the Great Lakes almost freezing over. Bring it onnnn

Went to the beach yesterday to see some of the migrating birds and while I was too late to catch the pelicans, there were approximately one billion seagulls (and this one crow that was hanging out with them) 🪶

The news (because you betcha this was in the paper) has dubbed this squirrel “Albie” but an old man I chatted with while I was out looking called him “Winter” which I like better

I FOUND THE WHITE SQUIRREL

I saw this beautiful blue heron yesterday and while I missed him diving for a fish, I did get the aftermath of him looking fluffy and embarrassed 🪶

There’s an albino squirrel in one of the local parks and I feel like Captain Ahab trying to look for it I told Lady that she has to come put me down if I start talking like a sailor

First photo with my new and improved lens, this fluffy little woodpecker! 🪶 It’s not the most detailed photo but I’m still figuring out the focus, plus the lens is extremely heavy. But excuses aside, I think it’s not bad for something I took almost half a block away.

Oh to be a bumblebee on some wilting lingonberry(?) flowers Don’t quote me on that flower ID, there are like a dozen berries that have nearly identical ones

I went to a Feed Gaza protest last night and while we got plenty of solidarity honks/thumbs up, there was one passerby that gave us the double middle finger Idk how to say this but if “starving people is bad” is too left of a viewpoint to you you don’t deserve to live in polite society

Just saw someone say “I love everything about Minnesota except the politics” Like babygirl the things you love exist because of the politics. The outdoors, the infrastructure, the relative safety, all made possible by consistently voting blue

Just in case you didn’t see my actually good bear photos:

How to tell the difference between wolves howling and coyotes howling! Wolves: haunting, elegant, awooooooooo Coyotes: what in god’s name is that, screaming and shrieking, aaäärrrrrroööoooorrrrrooraaaaäraaaeeeeeeeëaaaaä

If that branch wasn’t there this would’ve been an amazing photo

One of my most controversial food opinions is that orange creamsicle/dreamsicle/whatever is an overrated and frankly quite gross flavor and should be much less popular than it is Citrus is not compatible with dairy and I won’t pretend that it is

Until the better lens I mentioned yesterday gets here you’re stuck with photos like this 🪶

My dad has incredibly kindly offered to get me a better lens for my camera so hopefully there’ll be an increase in photo quality here

Please use this as a reaction image, let’s make Francine (the deer) famous Also she’s not sick, that’s just her summer coat and it’s much thinner than her normal fur

It’s frickin Beartown USA over here today A mama and her 2 cubs came to hang out in our neighbor’s yard tonight

Also wanted to post the bear yawning as video because it’s extremely cute

I was blessed with this amazing sight of a bear taking a nap today I didn’t have my good camera so the photos aren’t great, also I took them from my car so Lady wouldn’t yell at me

I’ve been 24 for a week and I’m already getting tired at 10:30 pm, aging is a nightmare

I just watched a man at work eat a lime like an apple WITH THE PEEL STILL ON

I believe this is what’s called a Beautiful Russula mushroom, which is a very appropriate name as it’s such a gorgeous pink color Also, a disclaimer: don’t eat mushrooms you aren’t entirely sure of. Even if they’re really pretty. 🍄‍🟫🍄

One of my coworkers is still learning English and largely still uses her native tongue, but I guess she’s been in the midwest for long enough that she’s started using “ope” which makes me very happy ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

I do think I need to work on my patience if I want to be more successful with animal photography. They’re so much harder to see than plants bc they move around and don’t like humans

Getting up extra early tomorrow and staking out the boat landing. I’m just putting it out there that it would be an excellent birthday present to see and photograph some otters @god if you’re listening

Still no otters but I did see these bumblebees on a flower date

You fall in a lake ONE TIME and now all of a sudden your dad texts you stuff like this Thank you for your confidence, father

Look how stylish this moth is. The orange head. The jewel tone blue accents. The skinny little antennae. She is iconic

I have a bad habit of switching tenses when I write and while I try to stay consistent with it, I feel like (and hope) no one really cares or even notices if the smut is good enough

Haven’t seen any otters yet but while searching for them I was booped by this little chipmunk

Stumbled across this driftwood structure at the beach and as cool as it is please remember to leave no trace when you’re in nature

Set my alarm for 7:30 tomorrow because I want to see those otters. I’m wondering if I can guarantee they’ll show up by like, rubbing some salmon on myself and my camera

I’ve received a tip that there are BABY OTTERS at one of the local boat landings and I’d love to go see them and potentially get pictures, but apparently they’re only out and about really early in the morning and frankly I want to die if I wake up before 10am

I can’t quite determine what kind of mushroom this is but I thought it was cute poking out of the moss

Some carnivorous pitcher plants from my adventure yesterday! If you look closely you can see that they have little hairs that prevent their prey from escaping

He has THOUGHTS and you WILL LISTEN TO THEM

Not the best photo but I thought it was neat that this dragonfly was being still enough to see its spots

The nature area I’m going to this weekend has occasional moose sightings but I’m pretty sure I won’t see one, they’re really elusive (despite being, y’know, massive) especially in the summer But in the back of my mind I’m still like “omg what if I did see one wouldn’t that be cool”

My parents did such a good job instilling “don’t answer the phone if you don’t recognize the number” into me as a kid that even as an adult I reject them sometimes out of instinct

Help why is she standing like that

I was watching this guy for hours the other day but I only managed to get these subpar photos, little bastard wouldn’t stay still 🪶