One Thing About Researching World Around You Is That It Becomes A Bit Friendlier Once You Know It Better.

One thing about researching world around you is that it becomes a bit friendlier once you know it better. If you see a random spider- you get scared. You see plants and consider them just weeds. You look at night sky and see a bunch of stars.

And then, you learn names.

Now, it is an orbweaver, and you consider them a friend. The greenery around is a laurel, or an alium, or osmanthus, and you know which of them to keep away from, and which of them are great herbs for tea. Now, you look up and see a whole parade of Venus, Ursa Major, or Orion. You now know their names, and, if you respect them- they become allies of yours.

I adore them

Bigtop

So more on my intense emotional inner world— the fact that a bird this fucking pretty exists on the same planet as me is about to make me cry???

Greater Blue-eared Glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus), family Sturnidae, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by PanWoyteczek

@spoonymacks

Gardener's first selfie. My friend's character, Inei (he/she/they), is pictured. Inei and Gardener have such a precious friendship and I loved drawing them together

Honse

Conversion on the Way to Damascus, by Caravaggio (1601).