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Dancing with Dinosaurs
Have you ever sat back and wondered what life was like 100 years ago? 200? Perhaps a millennium? Four? Did you ever ask yourself hey, I really wish I could have met a dinosaur? Or perhaps a creature so unique it has ten eyes, an outer shell, and most closely related to a spider?
By Laura Buonpastore5 years ago in Earth
A Life-changing Lesson I Learned from Gardening
The coronavirus pandemic hit our lives in unexpected ways and brought our lives to a standstill. Frontline health workers took over to face the battle head-on while the rest of us were confined to our homes to stay put and quarantine ourselves. People lost jobs, schools and colleges were closed, factories were shut down and the manufacturing sector came to a halt. But it is said that with every challenge a new opportunity also arises with it.
By Ann Mary Alexander5 years ago in Earth
Behind The Lens 🟪📸🟪
Location I was absolutely delighted to escape my quarantine hotel one Wednesday In Sri Lanka, having being invited on Safari to Yala National Park. This was my first time seeing these majestic mammals in the wild and it was a truly magical experience. We had a 2.5 hour car journey to get to the park, where we transferred into a massive open jeep that could comfortably accommodate x6. There was only myself, the guide and the kind Colombian who had invited me as his guest. Absolutely perfect for allowing me to climb around in search of good angles for photographs. Shoes off, crouching, kneeling, hanging out the sides...the roof... you name it I was doing it!
By Kayleigh Fraser ✨5 years ago in Earth
Nature and the Creative Life
Living in the country has been such a welcome surprise. I was raised in the city and loved living there. After marrying and 6 years of living in the city, we decided to try country life and have lived in the country in a home my husband and I designed for 24 years.
By Virginia McGuire5 years ago in Earth
The Great Vegetable Plot
Struggling Alone Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a celery plant. It was tall with a busy mop of straggly unkept leaves on top. Its bright green leaves were frazzled, peppered with brown spots, burnt on like someone had walked along dragging a cigarette beside them carelessly scorching everything in its path. From a distance the long stalks appeared to be sprinkled with a black lumpy scale but in fact they were little black bugs called aphids that were jostling all over the top of each other. The aphids were merrily walking their way up and down the stalk chomping on whatever they wanted, leaving potholes and a white slime behind. The celery had almost given up under the weight of the unyielding bugs.
By M.K. Marche5 years ago in Earth
Plants found on salt marshes
There are very few environments that do not support plant life of some kind, although some places are more challenging than others. Salt marshes, which are low-lying coastal areas in estuaries and harbours that are flooded at high tide but exposed at low tide, make special demands of any plant that chooses to colonize them, but there are several plant species that have become particularly successful at so doing because they can tolerate a high level of salt in the water at their roots. In return, they have become an important part of the ecology of these areas.
By John Welford5 years ago in Earth
The Wary Eyed Grazer
We sat upon a small knoll overlooking the lands of Yellowstone National Park. It was a cool spring day. The snow began to melt. The land still wet. The day was young. All we had was time. Two brothers in heart but not in blood venturing in to the wilds of Wyoming. Then we heard it. The sound of hooves. Many hooves. Tromping across the land.
By Bryan Jay Nickerson5 years ago in Earth
