I love that Osprey!
and a violin
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In my home we recycle and turn off the lights in rooms weâre not in. We also have a garden in our front yard and some plants in our house to make the air clean. My room is the most passionate place for nature. Lots of animal books, drawings, and toys all over the place.
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Yes. I take that with me almost everywhere :D
I didnât mention it because it wasnât really relevant to the post (except maybe the bird voices in Vivaldiâs 4 seasons which I have somewhere in the pile of scores on my music stand), but it is very relevant to me. Haha
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Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams
which I listened to with my mother, who could remember hearing the birdsong. I have my fatherâs violin (but donât play)
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Oh I forgot about that! It is a really beautiful piece as well and I do actually have the sheet music somewhere! :D
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At a glance, very little; a few exceptional feathers, some oothecas, eggs, and pupae tucked away in a corner, a camera, binoculars, but otherwise I am a bit of a minimalism zealot. Moving around makes you distill the essentials, and in any case I try to spend as little time at home as possible.
However in the future I would like to have a bush yard so that I can spend more time being immersed âat homeâ.
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Either you donât have pets (as in âcats live in three dimensionsâ or âlarge dogs whose tails can wipe surfaces clean of anything that isnât glued to themâ), or this is the one room in the house where aforementioned pets arenât allowed.
In my case, itâs the latter. ;-)
There are bird voices? How come I didnât notice them?
Exactly what I was going to say!
I am definitely going to listen again today.
And which Season are they in? Spring? Summer?
Yes. I donât think they are actually the actual bird calls, but there are a few places where Vivaldi has written in birdsong. The most famous one is right at the beginning of Spring: âCanto degli Ucelliâ
There is at least one more part of spring with bird voices and one in the first movement of summer.
Additionally, there is a âwild beastâ in Autumn III.
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Thanks!
I will listen carefully, and let my imagination assist me (I donât read music)
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No pets unless you count crustacean colonies in plastic tubs.
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You can count them as pets if they have names, and you talk to them.
Sometime i do frames, always with dead nature.
They make me feel better.
Sometimes I give these frames to friends.
It improves my mood even more.
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Those are cool!
The home in which I live is not necessarily filled with nature items so much as nature-friendly. Many of the aspects of it are related to climate but I think the two go hand in hand, as you cannot love nature but have disregard for the climate.
Our home is several hundred years old so incorporates natural cooling methods such as mamposteria walls which are at least half a meter thick, ceilings that are roughly 4 meters high, and tile floors which retain cool. The floors, called pasta, are common here and several of the ones in our home incorporate nature in the designs.
We have doors with individual panels within them that open to draft air currents as well as doors between the rooms themselves that can be angled for the same purpose. Most doors are two sided and extremely tall. Here are the ones from the kitchen into the dining room. You can see that one could be opened and the other shut. Additionally the doors could be shut but the upper panels opened to allow air to blow directly through. (You become quite an expert at airflow when you live here, and watching how grasses blow or hover flies maneuver in the garden is a favorite pastime.)
While we do have a washer, we do not have a dryer; we hang our laundry to dry. Outside in the sun is best but we have a covered interior patio for the rainy season.
We have an enormous tank called a tinaco that catches rainwater from the roof which we use for the garden or washing paths, etc. (You can see it in the background of this hummingbird photo.)
Our kitchen is open air, which is to say that it was not part of the original house construction and so is open to the covered interior courtyard, so often there are Asian house geckos running along the ceiling (ha!).
The garden is unique to much of Centro because it has quite a lot of unpaved surface, which helps tremendously during hurricanes, as does the drain dug into the limestone just outside the front door. This house does not flood, thank goodness, even when the streets do. Periodically the drain fills with dirt and becomes a tiny ecosystem all of its own because although the sun beats down here, the inside of the drain remains largely shaded since it is below ground. so when it is time to lift the heavy grate and remove the dirt so the drain functions as intended, I usually can make Observations from this chore.
I do have bits and bobs of nature around the house, and I gravitate toward natural fibers including decorative items made of henequén, which is important to the local economy. (You can see a window pull made of it here.)
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Probably the most used guides are Reptiles of Australia, Australian bird guides and occasionally the carnivorous plants.
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Loving everyoneâs nature-themed home decor and seeing some overlap with my own book collection! Probably the first thing youâd notice walking up to my house is that my front yard looks a bit different from the neighborsâ manicured lawns.
In case you were wondering if that is intentional, the posters on the garage walls may be a first clue.
If that isnât enough, my gardening shelf speaks the same language. From cultivating chaos to taming wildflowers⊠Sounds about right!
So by this time it should come as no big surprise that the lower two drawers in my fridge are dedicated to seed storage. Iâm up to about 170 species of native plants in my seed bank now, many of those seeds collected in my own yard.
My computer desk features a shelf full of field guides where I can easily reach them while uploading or identifying on iNat. I had to start parking books in second row since Iâve filled the shelf.
The space to the left is reserved for total nerdiness - plus feline supervisor, because apparently I need to be reminded when itâs time for dinner, haha!
Looking for a nature hike? Iâve got some books for that, too!
And itâs not a recent thing either, although admittedly I was more into animals as a teenager. The bigger books on the left were on my wishlist for the holidays, going all the way back to my 12th birthday. You may be able to spot a little booklet on Vogelspinnen on the right. My dad put his foot down on that and told me no way would I be allowed to keep a pet tarantula, so we got a dog instead. And yes, dinosaurs totally belong among all the pet-themed literature. Where else would they go?
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Dinosaur is crafted from grass ?