What are some of your weird nature habits? I think I’ll leave the question intentionally vague as it may lead to more interesting results. I’ll start; I love photographing Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry) plants with weird leaf morphologies and eating cranberries right off the plant.

Same, I would miss Clifford if he dissapeared.

I talk to rattlesnakes when I come across them, including thanking them for buzzing as a warning and not biting me. Maybe a nervous reaction. (Even though I’m not afraid of them, those surprise encounters still make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.)

I apologize to creatures that I startle as I walk across their paths (although typically when nobody else is nearby to judge)

I’m possibly addicted to the smell of creosotebush leaves — I have to crush the leaves and sniff them when I’m walking in the desert. I’ll stick some in my pocket for later. Probably isn’t a support group for this.

[image] ItsMeLucy: Currently keeping company with Giorgio . Related: https://youtu.be/3wAY50c0vRM

I’m currently “friends” with the broad-faced sac spider that lives in my bathroom. It eats all the bugs in there. Very conducive to pleasant tooth-brushing but I wish it would give me privacy when I shower.

Generally I just talk to myself a ton in a really ecstatic manner.

YES! GIORGIO MORODER! Father of Disco! He wrote a slew of amazing songs including “I Feel Love” which is my cleaning song. Thus he earned a fine honor. (Oh, yikes, this has gone very off-topic.) OK, another weird habit I have is that I often thank well-behaved insects for holding still during phot…

[image] tsslimemold: Generally I just talk to myself a ton in a really ecstatic manner. You’re not alone—I do that all the time! [image] ItsMeLucy: I name and greet individually recognizable creatures And I talk to things too, mostly plants. I’ve shouted at at least a dozen of them by…

Weird nature habits?

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I sometimes compulsively pollinate native flowers I encounter.

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